From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-13T03:33:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:55 am, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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,

don't mistake the pudding for the spoon.

why do you think a conversing computer would be limited in its expressiveness? 
does not your conversations with fellow mathmaticians emcompass the language 
of Math?

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net


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