DISQUS

Very interesting how different view points can be. Ruby's perl-ish ancestry is causing me to start being envious of perl -- to the point of fantasizing about using it instead of ruby. In other words, ruby's perlisms are a _good thing_ in my book.

Also, can't help but point out that Python has lots of inconsistencies. For example, in something as simple as a method call:

Want to split a string on spaces into a list?

"some string".split()

Want to get the length of a string?

"some string".length()

oops! Sorry:

len( "some string" )

I mean, wtf.

In an unofficial way, of course... you don't? Good luck.

I'm as big a fan of this amusing checklist as the next guy, but I don't think this article is trying to 'solve the problem' persay, it's an idea 'put to paper' that looks at how we communicate. It's interesting to compare some of these systems we use and see how we can potentially take the good from one and apply it to the other.

I think 'make them use Windows' deserves it's own paragraph, that one happens a lot and can discourage anyone.

Also, I've found a great way to piss off developers is to make them work static hours like 8:30 - 5

@miles: he said it's the next big thing, not new, adoi

So he gets up early...? This has nothing to do with discipline, some people just don't have a morning problem.

> ads that even if not clicked, still installed malicious code on the local machine

Only if you're running Windows. Really people, time to move on... it's not the 90's anymore.

Give up and learn Merb or Pylons or something. These Django guys don't know what they're doing. That's why I jumped ship after finishing my first Django project (almost 2 years ago, 0.95!!!).

PLEASE look at Merb, Ruby will make you so happy!

There's a major downside to this approach, though:

x = ( callMeIfFalse(), callMeIfTrue() )[ condition ]

both functions get called, and the value for x is chosen from the constructed tuple (since false evaluates to the 0th element of the tuple and true evaluates to the 1st). So you can't decide behavior using this method wheras you could do (in Ruby, but it's nearly identical in perl):

x = condition ? callMeIfTrue() : callMeIfFalse()

err, ARE present in Ruby, eg. your gripes AREN'T present, the stuff you want is :P

You should really take another look at Ruby. You can almost write straight python in it, except it's borrowed heavily from perl and not 'ABC'. next if condition, and many of your other gripes are not present in ruby.