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On 27 Mar 2005, at 15:34, bertrandmuscle / yahoo.com wrote:

> but for myself and perhaps many other users it comes down to how 
> intuitive the language is. from this perspective: if sort! works, 
> sort_by! should also.
>
> one of the things that drew me to ruby recently was this philosophy, 
> but there have been some off-putting inconsistencies.

There are two very important things to remember...

Ruby is perfectly intuitive to Matz.

If you stick around, Matz will program your brain.

(Also,

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.)

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Eric Hodel - drbrain / segment7.net - http://segment7.net
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