[ale] Why Ruby? [was Pyhon syntax]

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:00 -0500, John P. Healey wrote:
> indentation is almost as overrated as newlines.  When i write code, I put the
> entire program on a single line.  I don't want to be constantly searching for
> the line of code that has the bug.  i want to know exactly where the bug is,
> and having all code in a single line does that for me.
> 
> of course, there are some drawbacks to this approach.  I lost my last job when
> my boss found out that I had actually written only 18 lines of code in the two
> years I was working there.  But, as far as I know, those 18 lines are still
> keeping planes in the air today.
> 

I went the other way on that. The last job I had that did the
performance count by lines of code saw a prolific line count. I mastered
the art of coninuing a simple line over 12-20 lines by adding extra
indention and line spacing for readability.

So while some

people would

find it

annoying

to use as

much space

as 

I

when 

coding a simple menu,

I found it much

easier

to add handwritten

comments

to the printouts

during boring meetings.
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