ShoeHorn writes: "Here is a good article (1st of a 4 part series), that introduces you to the Ruby language. If you are currently a programmer coming from the likes of C++, Perl, or Python, you will see some strong similarities (especially to Python)."
Let's pretend you were writing an "rcurses" library.
Need a line of 20 "-". No problem.
Anyway, from now on we'll all contact you before adding a feature to a language.
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Re:Why learn another language?
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Anonymous Coward
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You're enhanced knowlege of languages looks great on your resume no matter what you use as your primary language
Let's try mastering the English language first, please.
Re:Strict languages vs. hacked languages
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> and Ruby/Python/Perl all seem to me to have a BASIC odor to them; >> Now you are really grasping. That claim isn't even solid enough to refute
I decided to conduct a test. I fired up the visual basic development enviornment.
I sniffed around the keyboard mouse and the system itself. Then I fired up PythonWin and did the same.
I can report that the odor was in fact identical.
My conclusion: never judge a programming languange on smell alone.
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Let's pretend you were writing an "rcurses" library. Need a line of 20 "-". No problem. Anyway, from now on we'll all contact you before adding a feature to a language.
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- You're enhanced knowlege of languages looks great on your resume no matter what you use as your primary language
Let's try mastering the English language first, please.> and Ruby/Python/Perl all seem to me to have a BASIC odor to them;
>> Now you are really grasping. That claim isn't even solid enough to refute
I decided to conduct a test. I fired up the visual basic development enviornment. I sniffed around the keyboard mouse and the system itself. Then I fired up PythonWin and did the same.
I can report that the odor was in fact identical.
My conclusion: never judge a programming languange on smell alone.
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when you end up in Mexico with an English-to-Mexican and vice-a-versa dictionary.
Mexican? Everyone knows they speak Latin in Latin America.