From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-13T02:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> honestly, i think they all suck really. Ruby just sucks less.
>
> the day i can simply have a two-way conversation with my computer to get the
> resulting program i need is the day it won't suck anymore.

I disagree.  I wouldn't like to program by talking to the computer.  I
appreciate an expresive language that can encourage a new way of thinking
and convey a lot of information that would be difficult to express in
English.

This is one of the reasons why I am a mathematician.  Math is like that.
My ideal computer language would accomplish this too.  Perl was good
because it is so expresive, but it is also cryptic.  Ruby is better
because it is expressive without being cryptic.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137