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A rant on programming language syntax and verbosity: Why Ruby is not for me When looking at the new programming languages, sometimes i feel like i'm alone in the wilderness in advocating for verbosity and the value of longer and clearer code. I've never understood the desire to find shorter and shorter ways of expressing code. In fact one of the things i always try to hammer home when helping people learn to be better coders is that it's better to write 10 lines of understandable code than 2 lines of perfect concise incomprehensible hacks. But perl seems to have mainstreamed this obfucation-contest flavored coding style, and now here comes Ruby.. Read about the section of the Ruby manual that is a deal breaker for me.. |
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