Re: Advantages of Ruby

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On 10/19/05, rjack / elegancetech.com <rjack / elegancetech.com> wrote: > I am new to Ruby. I have done most of my development in statically > typed languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.). > > I understand that there are advantages and disadvantages to dynamic > versus static typing. What idioms/patterns can you do in Ruby that you > just can't do in statically typed languages? Are there problems you can > solve in Ruby that you can't solve or would be awkward to solve in > statically typed languages? > > Is there a website or document that describes this somewhere? > > [Note: I'm not interested in starting any language wars here. I really > want to understand the expressive advantages of Ruby.] PDF::Writer is 6,000 lines of code. Readable code. I suspect that other implementations are much larger. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca