From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2011-12-11T05:35:58+09:00
Subject: Re: reading from file without end-of-lines

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 15:07, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:
...
>> Sadly, Ruby is going that direction lately, with the introduction
>> of the -> syntax notation, which I absolutely loathe. Perhaps
>
> It is quite appealing for mathematically inclined, I believe.

Not that that's a prescription for a good programming language.
Remember, APL was originally just a mathematical notation.  For those
of you who haven't heard of it... there's a good reason for that!  :-)

-Dave

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