From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T00:08:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:

>I think, should be able to answer the basic question, is it an
>advantage or a drawback to have more varieties (like in Ruby) or bare
>minimum (like in Python) in a programming language (which is by nature
>different from a natural language)?  I think this is significant, because,
>in my opinion, Python gets its attractiveness from its minimalist
>principle ("there is only one way to do it"), ...
>

You are missing a very important point here. Beauty is in the eye of the 
beholder.

Python's minimalism is attractive to people who like minimalism.
It is decidedly unattractive to people who see Python's minimalism as an 
exercise in masochism.

There is no correct answer to your question; only choices.