From: niklas | brueckenschlaeger <niklas@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T06:38:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's "More than one way to do things."

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Also: Even though we are all computer programmers (kind of), we come
from a diversity of fields of expertise, let alone different worlds of
programming languages / paradigms / experiences.
Ruby is imho the language that allows developers who've done Perl, C,
asm, (python), JavaScript, Pascal, whatever before to all work on the
same page, while everyone still gets some aspects of their most
comforting language.

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 06:31 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
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> In message "Re: Ruby's "More than one way to do things.""
>     on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:16:16 +0900, Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywhit=
e@gmail.com> writes:
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> |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?
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> "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".
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> 							matz.
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