From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T06:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's "More than one way to do things."

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby's "More than one way to do things.""
    on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:16:16 +0900, Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywhite@gmail.com> writes:

|There is one point made about Python vs. Ruby on this site:
|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRuby that interests me:
|
|It is this:
|Ruby: "There is more than one way to do it."
|Python: "There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to
|do it."
|
|Do you agree that Ruby emphasizes having more than one way to do it more
|than Python does? Do you believe this is a good thing for Ruby? Why?

"There is more than one way to do it" is the slogan we borrowed from
the Perl community.  I cannot speak for the Perl community, but for
us, the slogan expresses the importance of diversity.  But we do not
love diversity for no reason.  We do not want confusion, for the sake
of diversity.  So to rephrase: "There should be more than one way to
do it, if having many way is rational, depending on often untold
context".

							matz.