On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Opposite of the previous question. Unlike the previous, it should be
> able to fit in 140 characters or less.
>
> For me:
> * ruby (MRI and YARV) is an imperfect implementation of ruby (the language).
> * ruby's appeal isn't small, just selective, ala Spinal Tap.
dammit, I squeezed mine into the last one. To recap:
relatively slow
difficult to enforce deliberate constraints
capricious scoping changes
C API is pretty fugly, and changes significantly between releases
blocks aren't full first-class closures
no story for multi-core/parallel programming
UTF-8, but almost everyone gets that wrong initially.
the old line about languages people bitch about and languages people
don't use comes to mind, though.
mark
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