not hating ruby

g-guys i tried ruby a few days ago and i en-enjoyed it.

do any of you know where i can be cured of my homosexual urges?

This thread is frightening

>>40
IHBT.

computationally complex problems can be dealt with efficiently in Ruby
system("solve", a, x, b)
IHBT

<------- dubz, check them

>>44
DUBS CONFIRMED

>>39
Readability counts end end end end

Over the line

48 get

there is no excuse for not hatint ruby

>>34
>Unfortunately, there's no way it can get it right all the time. In this case, ``a +b'' is parsed as ``a(+b)''. Remove the space to the left of ``+'' or add a space to the right of ``+,'' and it will be parsed as an addition.
and coffeescript thought this was a great idea

``fixing'' javascript by following the same design process:
1. steal bad ideas from other languages
2. steal good ideas from other languages, but cripple them
3. brag about these innovative ideas. guys, look! closures! does your language have these?! i bet not! i hope you love closures because you're going to be using a whole lot of them to fix the variable scoping we fucked up!

>>24
Lisp is going through a sort of recurrence – just look at how many Clojure jobs that are going. I get called almost once a month about jobs using... Lisp.

;) I might prefer to work in Smalltalk, but hey, Lisp is beautiful too.