Friday, December 23, 2005

I Hope Not

Ruby is to Perl what C++ was to C. He qualified this by saying, "Ruby improves and simplifies the Perl language" which isn't really what I saw C++ doing at all.

Quote: "These are the folks that assert that Java's verbosity is "just finger typing that Eclipse/IntelliJ will do for me," and it doesn't matter if the resulting code has 20 times the visual bulk of a simpler approach. One of the basic tenets of the Python language has been that code should be simple and clear to express and to read, and Ruby has followed this idea, although not as far as Python has because of the inherited Perlisms. But for someone who has invested Herculean effort to use EJBs just to baby-sit a database, Rails must seem like the essence of simplicity. The understandable reaction for such a person is that everything they did in Java was a waste of time, and that Ruby is the one true path."

Related: Rocking With Ruby and One way Java is better than Ruby

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