Why Ruby?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/19/10 9:49 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Imagine you don't have to write semicolons in D. If you have 1000 lines of code you save 1000 keystrokes
> and characters to read.
>
> If you have about 50 delegates in your code you save 200 characters.

The way you measure to assess whether this is material is in proportion 
to the rest of the code. Semicolons are quite frequent, but 200 
characters in 1000 lines may be as infrequent as 0.2%.

> I don't think this is more important than the other problems you mention, but adding bits of characters
> here and there ends up saving a lot.

I agree in principle, but not in this case.


Andrei