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missromankshlerin52 His friends call him by his name, his enemies don’t call him anything because they are all dead
coriesimonis3 The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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morganyundt47 Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
almost 2 years ago •
coriesimonis3 Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.
almost 2 years ago •