jeah, no semicolons, no semaphores, no unnecessary complicated code … this is a special form of freedom.
many programmers won’t appreciate that, though.
meinrad
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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.