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Methinks it lacks "Pascal -> Need contracts -> Eiffel"
Colin, would a reasonable implicit assumption be that if the problem being solved isn't a problem for me, then I should stick with the language in question? I mean, for e.g., if I don't care that Python's not OO enough, I don't need to know Ruby, right? Right?! p.s: in case it's not apparent, I will be using these graphs to justify some laziness on my part :)
In my case, I've been surprised at how much less syntactic overhead Ruby imposes than Python (despite the explicit "end"!), and how much it matters. Compare:
def mouse_clicked
x = mouse_x / @cellsize
y = mouse_y / @cellsize
if @cells[x][y] == :empty
set x, y, :wire
elsif mouse_button == LEFT
set x, y, :empty
else
set x, y, :electron_head
end
end
def mouse_clicked(self):
x = processing.mouse_x() / self.cellsize
y = processing.mouse_y() / self.cellsize
if self.cells[x][y] is Empty:
self.set(x, y, Wire)
elif processing.mouse_button() == processing.LEFT:
self.set(x, y, Empty)
else:
self.set(x, y, ElectronHead)
To me, the Ruby version has a much higher signal-to-noise ratio.
Another thing: JRuby seems to be a lot more mainstream among Rubyists than Jython is among Pythonistas, which I think means it's a bit more solid.
Where do people think "D" should be put? What arrows with what labels?
Bullshit. Not to mean or anything. But bullshit. Most of the arrows are labelled with the author's post-hac, childish generalizations of language differences. JavaScript came from Java because of the scary syntax? No, it came from Scheme because of the scary syntax, Java's syntax was considered particularly comforting. There's no relation between Lisp and MacLisp. Lisp came from "Turing Machines"? Ruby came from Perl…
The enhanced version is completely different from the regular version. Not only are the reasons different, but a lot of the languages don't even inherit from the same sources (the regular version had javascript coming from java. wtf?). Just goes to show how arbitrary/silly it all is. Still pretty awesome. Why did haskell come about? "Lazy evaluation is cool, yo."
fortran is apparently fixes machine code
Not the same thing at all.
Javascript was developed to replace Java... do tell.
b. It's not talking about "developed to replace," it's talking about "was developed in response to a perceived problem."