From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2010-08-25T15:54:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Code Parsing

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:46:36AM +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
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> And I'm "just saying" that you were being an ass to Caleb when you
> suggested his comment about perl to be a personal problem. His comment
> is a fact. Perl is difficult for both man and machine to parse. I'm
> also "just saying" that you're wrong when you said that you found perl
> pretty easy to parse. You don't. You can't. That's been pointed out
> several times and you dance around it. You look at perl and "figure out
> what it's doing", meaning: you EVALUATE it in your head in order to
> determine what the code is doing. If you don't, then you're not as good
> as you think you are and perl is a lot more difficult than you realize.
> (or as a possible alternative, you're only dealing with
> kindergarten-level perl--which is a good thing really.)
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> By the standard you think I'm setting, MANY of us can mentally
> statically parse ruby, python, most C, and especially scheme, just like
> MANY of us learned how to diagram natural languages like English in
> grade school.
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> In increasing order of difficulty to parse: scheme, python, C, ruby.
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> Notice that perl isn't on that list.

Yes, I saw all this.

No, I don't think it's productive to have this discussion on the Ruby
list.

Anything else I might have to say . . . won't be said.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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