2009/7/30 r <rt8...@gmail.com>: > > Like your > first lay, your first programing language can leave an indelible mark > on you
That's true. FOCAL scarred me for life. > but i now realize Ruby has some good > things going for it. Any language that gets any sort of real use has to have. For instance, I love Ada's numeric types (you can specify either the minimum number of significant figures or the maximum delta for a real type, and it will give you a type that satisfies that -- or a compilation error if it can't. That matches genuine problem domains far better than having to remember how many bits in a double on this particular system, and reduces portability bugs). > 3.) true OOP > Now before you go and get all "huffy" over this statement, hear me > out. Python is the best language in the world. But it damn sure has > some warts! "len(this)" instead of "obj.length" max(that) instead of > [1,2,3,4,5].max(). You know what i am talking about here people. We > all get complacent and It seems easier to just cope with these > problems instead of fighting for change. But look at the French, WHAT > THE HELL HAS THAT DONE FOR THEM, *NOTHING*!!!! I seem to recall recent studies showing that the French were on average happier than Brits or Americans. Don't knock it! > As for the rest of Ruby, i am not impressed. The redundant usage of > "end" over indention perplexes me. The Perlish feel of "require" and > the horrifically cryptic idioms of Ruby regular expressions. The > "puts" and "gets" seem childish and the math class does not even have > a degrees or radians function! The operating system dependency built into the language did it for me. That and the fact that I couldn't stop laughing for long enough to learn any more when I read in the Pragmatic Programmer's Guide that "Ruby, unlike less flexible languages, lets you alter the value of a constant." Yep, as they say "Bug" = "Undocumented feature"! -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
