glauber wrote: > [...] > > While "by whom" may be overstatement, "for whom" is not: "for me", for > > one. I could never get comfortable with the Swiss Army Chainsaw way of > > thinking, and was amazed and grateful when I ran across Ruby. It is > > this very tension between beauty & practicality that Ruby renders moot, > > a false dichotomy. Code tends toward compactness and readability at the > > same time, expressiveness and simplicity at the same time. It seems > [...] > > Wait until you take a look at Scheme! > > glauber (quickly ducking for cover) (Umm... (been (there. (No (accounting for) (taste, eh.))))) ;-)