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Animats on April 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust via its Core Values

Ruby doesn't look like English. Hypercard:

    put word 2 of the clickLine into lino

and COBOL-60:

    MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR STOP RUN.

looked like English.

catnaroek on April 4, 2016 [–]

Point taken. I was thinking about how Ruby DSLs are often designed to resemble English text as much as possible.

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