atbusbook / aol.com wrote:

> 1: ruby is an efisiont clean languige that is digsined to minamize
> boilerplate code
> 2: lets say you have an array of strings and you want to find all
> strigs that maches a patern and print them space seperated
> <code>
> i = %w{foo bar baz qux quux quuux quuuux}
> puts i.find_all{|x| x =~ /qu+x/}.join(' ')
> </code>
> 3: java on the other hand has a lot of boiler plate like setters and
> getters. i chose java because of  the good ide suport. I am a emacs guy
> and what i like about it is this lets say you want to deleat a block
> 
> C-space C-S end
> C-w
> 
> I am much more efective with ruby and emacs than with eclipce and java
> becaus the languige is almost sudocode like this echo utilaty or the
> mach utilaty above
> 
> <code>
> puts ARGV.join('  ')
> </code>

Nothing really to say, just thought I'd make the subject a bit more appropriate.

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