From: Fritz Heinrichmeyer Date: 2003-07-30T15:26:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ... .... a look like javascript on steroids. Casual PHP programmers and designer that are forced to write javascript would feel at home. This is of course not the sort of elite programmers that follows this group normally (having learned lisp, haskell, ocaml, having read/written books about patterns etc.). A lot of people don't trust python because of indentation (at least i do) and moreover don't trust a language where newline separates statements. They want a language where program logic survives reformatting in a wordprocessor. -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer FernUniversitaet, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355