From: Andrew Walrond Date: 2003-06-12T21:52:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby disadvantages over Mind Um...I think you'll find everybody here is fully inoculated against trolls...except me.. Go speak latin; it's more 'stimulating' Anubis wrote: > OO Programming is not the Panacee and I don't like Ruby because my mind is > much less stimulated programming with it. > I mean if you have to "turn right and become red" then Ruby has already a > method doing that. > And you can use it like this : Object.turn_right_become_red > I prefer doing that by programming instead of writing something which > someone has already programmed for me. Because people saying that since they > program with Ruby they don't want to program with another language are true > : they are not adapted anymore with popular but harder programming language. > I mean you have to train your brain and not to become lazy with it. That's > why after programming a little bit with Ruby and with Perl I choose Perl. > Perl brings fun to programming also because you have to think. If "fun" > means to you playing video games instead of chess then Ruby is for you and > you will find a lot of obvious advantages of Ruby over Perl... > > Anubis > > "Marek Janukowicz" a �crit dans le message > news: slrnbefclg.6r9.childNOSPAM@child.t9.ds.pwr.wroc.pl... > >>I am going to write an article to a software magazine titled "Ruby as an >>alternative to Perl". There are some obvious advantages of Ruby over >>Perl: >> >>- Ruby is fully object oriented >>- blocks >>- introspection >>- very little difference between compile time and runtime >> >>Could you give me some more clues (I am missing a lot for sure)? >> >>TIA >>-- >>Marek Janukowicz > > > >