[ivancho]

Ah, a brilliant idea, design all languages so people who only know C can make small changes to existing Ruby code without getting confused. Definitely don't want to enable different abstractions or models of computation. Are these core principles in codebases you mentioned mostly "how to write stuff using C paradigms"? After all, "the Real Programmer can write FORTRAN in any language"

[sqeaky]

Why are so many people interacting with this at all instead of downvoting to oblivion? What kind of post comes from an anal_reactor?

[bmacho]

It is flagged, and it's impossible to downvote it. I wonder if its position is determined by its (frozen?) rating, or by its children rating?