From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T22:56:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics


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


> Come on, Gavin, my previous point is that you can have "unless" in C if
> you want to.  Also, I don't think we can stop programming in C, because,
> just as written in the pickaxe book, Ruby will not solve every programming
> problem, such as processes that require extensive computational power.

Sorry, dry humour ;)

My point is that C was not designed with "unless" in mind.  This may imply that
it was not designed with other good things in mind either - it's aim is
something different from high-level programming.  Obviously, no collection of
macros will make up for that.

Regarding extensive computational power, I recently examined some C code
performing some numerical work that I had independently implemented in Ruby.  I
was so amazed at how much more efficient it (the C program) was.  Mine was only
a toy, but the program I was looking at was designed to run for months/years at
a time.

> To me, the combination of Ruby and C is much more powerful than Ruby by
> itself, because in some sense, the two languages are complementary.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill

Cheers,
Gavin

> ============================================================================
> Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
>
> > No, we stop programming in C because it doesn't have "unless".
>
> > Gavin