From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T00:22:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:12:48PM +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > i mean really, telling people you like Ruby, but hey, Perl is just as
> > powerful, and Python really can do all that OO stuff, isn't going to perk too
> 
> But we can turn this around, and show respect for heritage:
> It has the familiarity for Unix users and Perlists of regexp
> operators and implicit operations on $_ if you want that,, the
> OO benefits that Python has, of a clean syntax (even OO for regexps if
> you want that), , with a simplified but powerful inheritance model,
> the unit testing facilities of java, ..., ... all in the one language.

Then Ruby would be perceived as "another set of random features". Lots
of languages suffer featuritis, and people would tend to think that
Ruby is amongst them if we make such a list of borrowed things.
I would focus on how well-thought the current features are, and on the care
being taken to be sure they fit within POLS.

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