From: "Brett H. Williams" <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2003-06-13T04:58:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby disadvantages over Mind

On Jun 12, 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...

So perl is better because it's harder and you have to think more?  I doubt
any perl advocates would want you to use this argument on their side in
this one... ;)

The way I look at it is that Ruby helps me by taking care of the details of
_writing_ a program and lets me worry about solving the problem.