From: Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T19:01:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Andrew Hunt wrote:
> 
> Consistency is far more important than familiarity.

But Ruby's consistency gave into familiarity in certain
(what I consider) fairly significant areas.

For example, we only have "everything's an object" behavior
for some math intrinsics and the interface for files is a bit
strange, e.g., I expected 5.cos or aFile.rename('toThisName'),
not Math.cos(5) and File.rename(aFile,'toThisName').

-- 
Bil