From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T03:32:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

Hi Dave,

That's why I drew an "analogy" and not a pure comparison.  C is minimalist
in terms of concepts, not really true in the verbosity/keywords 
area.  However, I really think that Python is minimalist in terms of
verbosity/keywords, with the result of short (if not the shortest 
possible, I think, except the ":" at the end of the conditions) and very
consistent code.  And I think

    short code + consistency = easy maintainability

Regards,

Bill
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> Dave Thomas wrote:
>> 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...