Why Ruby?

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 17:27:13 PST 2010


On 12/19/10, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Yes, because in practice "a>b" must end up being evaluated in the wrong
>> scope. I've used std.algorithm very little so far, and yet I've still
>> found
>> that limitation to be a problem.
>
> ..and if you're going beyond that,
> there's
> the fuller, complete syntax.
>

Exactly. Inventing a whole new syntax or borrowing some kind of
functional-language style syntax would only alienate those already
familiar with C syntax.


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