Magnus Lycka wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> I did look at Ruby once... It looked to me like the worst aspects of
>> PERL grafted onto the worst parts of old Python.
>
> Don't forget that there are portions of Smalltalk syntax
> (blocks) added in as well. I guess it could be seen as Pe
Marcin Mielżyński wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> What's a DSL?
>
> Domain Specific Language. It is easy to tweak Rubys syntax and semantics
> into something that looks like another language designed for a specific
> task.
For example, see Margin Fowler's articles:
http://martinfowler.com/bli
Xavier Morel wrote:
>
>> 2) Ruby does not have true first-class functions living in the same
>> namespace as other variables while Python does :
>>
>> In Ruby you need extra syntax that ruins the "first-class-ness" :
>>
> The extra syntax is a side-effect of the parensless call of method, it
> doe
