• buh [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Ruby does that (well you use the keyword “end” instead of a bracket) but it fell out of favor before it got as big as python, to my knowledge, because of worse multithreaded performance in comparison (which I think has been fixed) and a bias towards unix systems over windows

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      Personally staying away from Windows is a huge plus for me. I don’t want to read every caveat about how “this part sucks because Windows is trash” everywhere in the documentation. I do my best stay away from that mess.

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      For me the big issue with Ruby—which admittedly has many fine features I would like to see in other languages—is the lack of a general standard for its operations. There are so many ways to get the same basic logic loop done, it feels like a recipe for either unfollowable code or chaos in programming teams.

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        1 year ago

        There are so many ways to get the same basic logic loop done

        This also applies to C.

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          1 year ago

          Allow me to clarify.

          C has for, while, and do-while. That’s it.

          Ruby has for, while, do-while, until, rescue, inlined conditionals, optionals, and iterators, for what amounts to the same task; not to mention exceptions (something the C standard has repeated swerved away from, wisely) and lambdas.

          I’m not saying that there isn’t a time for Ruby, but if you think C falls into the same category then we’re very much in disagreement.

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            C has for, while, do-while, goto and recursion.

            How exactly are rescue, inlined conditionals and optionals used for creating loops? Also Ruby’s for and while do different things, unlike for and while in C.