On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:09 AM, tamouse pontiki <tamouse.lists / gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Robert Klemme > <shortcutter / googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:46 PM, NBarnes <nbarnes / gmail.com> wrote: >>> To be honest, coming from a more Java-equse background, I had some trouble >>> with Ruby's idioms. While I've come to grok the way that Ruby's usual >>> idioms do and do not omit parentheses and use hashes to pass sets of >>> optional parameters, I'm not sure that it's wise to try and teach students >>> the hows and whys of programming syntax in such an environment. >> >> It's an open question how important that research is. The initial >> learning phase is usually much smaller than the usage phase and Perl >> proves that you can get used to anything. > > So does mucking horse stalls. :) I didn't say that it is necessarily desirable to get used to Perl. I see, we're on the same page here. :-) Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/