I heard them too. I like XP programming and TDD and other developers
suggested to me to switch to Ruby (they are Java or .NET programmers)
for improving my “OO-experience” and doing a bit of work too.
Mmm…I think that Python is a bit more widespread than Ruby, isn’t
it?
Widespread as a larger user base and therefore more support right now?
Yes. OTOH, Python had a much smaller user base for the first five years
of its existence. And Perl beats both of them, so lets not use this as
our only basis for judgement.
OTOH, I LOVE Python’s indentation-based statement grouping! Oh
yeah, Python’s threading is quirky on some systems.
How Ruby group statements?
As in other post, by matching identifiers and (to a point) with newlines
and semicolons.
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My only hope is that you take Ruby for what it is, and not for what
it might resemble at a glance.
Heh, no. One semester only, long ago.
What does the quote mean?
It’s not so funny in English, because it’s a padory of an italian tv
spot. The spot claims - (Tiziana da Milano: “avevo un fidanzato, poi
è arrivato Halo”) - and - literally in English is “i had a boyfriend,
then Halo did come” and mine sign says: " i had Halo, then a girlfiend
did come ;-)"
Halo is the X-Box game
I really wondered about that Italian line:
To begin with, I did not know (and still do not know) what X-box is nor
what “the” X-Box
game might be. Had Halo not been spelled with an uppercase initial , I
would have assumed that
a halo, a gloriole was meant and that the appearance of the fiancée
somehow defused it.
Halo, however, was not in my Italian dictionary ( The golden disk that
holy persons
have hovering above their head is called “aureola” )
A subtle ambiguity results from the reversal of the tv spot:
In the original, the idea is probably that Halo became a permanent
replacement
of the boyfriend.
In the mirror image, this reads rather like a singular event:
“I was playing with Halo (or whatever one is supposed to do with it) and
then
my fiancée showed up.”
Otherwise, you’d probably say " but then I became engaged".
Probably it is politically more correct to substitute toys for boyfriends
than
to substitute girlfriends for toys. ( I refrain from interpreting
“girlfiend”
as a Freudian slip.)
Now we know it all
Greetings
Jan
It’s not so bad. But I prefer Python’s style.
I just read “Why You Might Want to Try Ruby” on Freshmeat and its
comments: Ruby Is great. I decided to study it (academic/home/fun
purposes) but I’ll get into Ruby from September cause I have to finish
some work in Java and go to holiday