Comments on: The trouble with Ruby http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Blogs, news and more! http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-2411 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:39:59 +0000 https://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-2411 very nice blog!mary

]]> By: jcheng http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-13 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:00:41 +0000 https://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-13 I replied with a long post in my blog, but here’s one more thought. The single language feature that most distinguishes Ruby from other mainstream general purpose programming languages is closures. It’s the source of much of Ruby’s expressiveness and power, but also the biggest source of initial confusion among newbies.

C# 2.0 introduced closures, although you could still pretty much ignore them if you wanted to. With C# 3.0, you won’t be able to turn around without bumping into closures, as lambda expressions are the linchpin of LINQ. Once people get used to lambda expressions, Java will be in trouble–it’ll feel like going back to training wheels to go from C# 3.0 to Java 1.6 (or whatever is next for Java).

It’s also worth noting that C# 2.0 added iterators, which are a limited form of continuations/coroutines. Sure, they were confusing for the average programmer, but for library designers who are writing e.g. parsers, they are a godsend.
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]]> By: whateverblog. » Blog Archive » Re: The Trouble with Ruby http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-12 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:07:33 +0000 https://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-12 [...] Sim says: I like Ruby but I don’t see it becoming a mainstream language soon. The biggest strength of Ruby–the OO nature of the language and some of its cooler constructs–are its greatest weakness. Consider continuations, for example. How many people in the world would know how to implement something with continuations without screwing up? [...]

]]> By: Flying Upside Down » The trouble with Ruby http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-11 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:24:38 +0000 https://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/the-trouble-with-ruby/#comment-11 [...] Source: The trouble with Ruby Originally published on 8/9/2006 5:43 AM by Simeon Simeonov [...]

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