From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-01T01:32:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shashank Date" <ADATE@kc.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics


> At least some of us in this (Ruby) group, including myself, find "economy
of
> expression"  a highly aesthetic phenomenon,
> so if it is possible to demonstrate that for any given Ruby
> statement/expression there is a shorter, more terse Python equivalent, you
> will have us converted.
>
> <vegai@nic.fi.GOTSOMUCHSPAMKEEPITCOMING> wrote in message
> news:slrnan10n5.oei.vegai@lorien.it.jyu.fi...
> > Hello. I've been checking into python lately quite a lot, and I
> > like its clean syntax.
> >
> > Then comes Ruby, which I find is inferior to python aesthetically.
> >
> > Comments?

I too suspect this may be a simple troll.

However, I do find Python's idea of meaningful
indentation interesting. It does make the code
shorter and a little less cluttered. Though I
can understand why many people would not like
it.

If there are other issues, tell us about them.

Hal