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I guess that's why Ruby has been called an "acceptable lisp". I take "everything is an expression" so for granted by now, and it makes for beautiful, terse code
by bk 18y ago
I guess that's why Ruby has been called an "acceptable lisp". I take "everything is an expression" so for granted by now, and it makes for beautiful, terse code.
The non-working python if statement/assignment example from the article works perfectly fine in Ruby. (No python/ruby flamewar please, that's really not the point)
- arohner 18y agoHow about a ruby/lisp flamewar? :-) J/K. In all seriousness though, I've recently moved to Clojure from Ruby. I'm not looking back. Clojure is significantly cleaner, faster, and has better libraries than Ruby.