From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2000-07-13T20:27:27-04:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue.

	>    Principle of Least Effort.

That covers a lot of ground, but I think many people will
not fully appreciate the all-encompassing subtlty of that Principle.

On a side note, another axis of language comparisons might
be something like "volatility", in the sense of "how bad do things
get when I make a typo".

On that axis, LaTex and C++ are very volatile (perhaps even chaotic? :-)
languages.  One wrong move and all hell breaks loose.   Ruby,
on the other hand, does not generally suffer widespread failure
due to a single typo.

Just my $0.02.

/\ndy