From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T01:50:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu> writes:

> I still feel that we are better off without alternatives in a
> computer language.  To draw an analogy, C is logically very simple,
> it has only four (main) components: array, structure, function, and
> pointer.  But from this minimal components, we can write almost any
> imaginable code (including Ruby itself).


But C has while loops and for loops. It doesn't need these, given an
if statement and goto.

It also has all those redundant comparison operators. Why have both
<=, >, and >= when all you need is < and =?

And of course it has all those redundant bit operators: all you need
is & and ~.

And so on...



Dave