RE: [unrev-II] Digest Number 74

From: John \ (johnwerneken@netzero.net)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 02:39:48 PST

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    From: "John \"sb\" Werneken" <johnwerneken@netzero.net>

    Thanks for continuing the comparisons.

    Hmmm, so the python hype might be justified, in your opinion...sounds like a
    good thing...

    > Message: 3
    > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:30:38 -0800
    > From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
    > Subject: Evaluation of Ruby
    >
    > From: Jeff Miller <jeffm@dynamite.com.au>
    >
    > > Have you taken a look at ruby (www.ruby-lang.org).
    > > I heard it described as a better perl with oo, garbage
    > > collection and dynamic loading. While it may not be
    > > suited to the project at hand. I'd be interested to
    > > hear people's opinon of it?
    >
    > There is a great comparison to other languages at:
    > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/compar.html
    >
    > A big red flag went up when I saw this:
    > * Ruby's functions (methods) are not first class objects
    >
    > That means you can't write a method that takes a function name as
    > an argument and then dispatch to it. You can do it in Java, but it's
    > ugly. It's the kind of flexibility I'm personally interested in, but
    > that
    > may not be so important to you.
    >
    > There are more important problems, though. Among them: operator
    > overloading. This is a *really* bad idea for readability. You may
    > *think* you know what "+" does, but "+" may do something totally
    > different for a + b and c+d, if the type of a and b is different from
    > the
    > type of c and d.
    >
    > No tuples in Ruby.
    >
    > Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I am a language afficianado,
    > and am always on the lookout for that one "super language" that
    > gets it all right. Right now, Python is looking pretty darn close.
    >
    >
    >
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