From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-07T02:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Hi --

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Phil Tomson wrote:

Larry Wall wrote:

> The main problem I see with Ruby is that the Principle of Least Surprise
> can lead you astray, as it did with implicit lexical scoping. The question
> is, whose surprise are you pessimizing?

No question here.  We have the answer: Matz's.


David

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