From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T08:06:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics


----- Original Message -----
From: "William Djaja Tjokroaminata" <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu>


> Hi,
>
> 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).
>
> [...]
>
> Bill

Which do you like better:
 - Ruby's arrays or C's arrays
 - Ruby's hashes or C's ... umm ... ?
 - Ruby's strings or C's stri^W char arrays

?

If the answer to all the above is "Ruby's xxx", then I think it's time to leave
discussion about conceptual minimilism alone.

Cheers,
Gavin