Programming

17366 readers

457 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

snowe@programming.dev

Ategon@programming.dev

MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz

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

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

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

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

Is ruby the new Perl?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 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.

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

I never looked at Ruby, but that doesn't seem like it would be great for readability (although maybe productivity).

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

People mostly refrain from using it.

Much like people used to create an idiom in Perl and stick to it.