Re: [Sheflug] getting pascal running linux?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lowe <richlowe [at] btinternet.com> writes:

    Richard> I like the look of ruby, although I've only had a quick
    Richard> glance.  It seems like a simple language to teach and
    Richard> learn.  But actually useful.

ruby is a typical Japanese product.  There's stuff in the object
system that is just plain ... dangerous[1] if used wrong.  Caveat
emptor.  So I never bothered to learn it.  Personal preference, not
really a recommendation against.

However, most users probably won't need that stuff, and the syntax
does look nicer than Perl.  But it suffers from the Perl "no operation
is complete until it has at least three syntaxes to express it"
disease ;-)  I don't know if it would make a very good teaching vehicle.




Footnotes: 
[1]  As Will says, everything is an object.  This is _hard_ to do
right.  Smalltalk does it right.  Ruby does not.

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