From: Recheis Meinrad Date: 2003-07-30T17:00:47+09:00 Subject: AW: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ... jeah, no semicolons, no semaphores, no unnecessary complicated code ... this is a special form of freedom. many programmers won't appreciate that, though. meinrad -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2003 09:50 An: ruby-talk ML Betreff: Re: Ruby could be wildly more popular if it had ... On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:26:12PM +0900, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: > > .... 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. Maybe it would be more popular with Perl programmers, but you wouldn't have any Ruby programmers left. Sorry, but this is one of the great things about Ruby: no semicolons! If you put your code through a wordprocessor, you deserve everything you get... Regards, Brian.