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"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby (zverok.space)

submitted 1 year ago by PythOnRails@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is ruby the new Perl?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That deserves an "always has been" meme... But IMO, Ruby outperled Perl since the beginning.

Perl doesn't let you redefine the syntax so that you can write the same program multiple ways. All it does is to encourage multiple programs to have the same meaning.

[–] exussum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And lets you easily write metal languages due to the way you can pass around blocks. Think configuration as code type stuff.

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