Why Ruby?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/11/10 11:05 AM, so wrote:
> Not to hijack this one but on the other thread i asked why this is needed.
> I am not here asking for syntax or commanding phobos team to implement
> something, I just want to know about technical limitations and license
> issues, but got no answer to these.
> Why? Either i am labeled here as a troll (maybe something worse since my
> usage of English is not the best) or people here lack the vision (Oh
> vision here actually bad usage since this bad practice have been here
> forever, lack of eyesight would be the better definition)
> One another thing might be that the community finds this issue is not an
> important, (which makes me ask myself what you guys actually developing).

I don't think you're near the danger of being labeled as a troll. Would 
be great to focus the discussion a bit.

For example, let's take a look at the code example given in the talk's 
first part that shows the beauty of Ruby. What does it look like in D? 
What can we do to make it look and behave better?


Andrei