@raganwald @cemerick Then you're using a definition of expressiveness I have never heard.
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@littlecalculist@cemerick Doesn’t expressiveness suggest compactness of the expressions as well as of the vocabulary?3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @raganwald
@raganwald@cemerick But the point of declarative features is *less expressiveness* for *more understandability*4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @littlecalculist
@littlecalculist@cemerick When there is OneWayToDoIt, everyone is relieved of the effort of figuring out how to do it or how it was done.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @raganwald
@raganwald@littlecalculist@cemerick right, but then you get standardized declarative classes and need syntax to recover expressiveness.2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @wycats
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@wycats@littlecalculist@cemerick And thus we circle back to my original observation: https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/595562545685073920 … :-DReginald Braithwaite added,
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Replying to @raganwald
@raganwald@littlecalculist@cemerick One thing I like about Ruby, that I dislike about JS, is that my eye fails to group things naturally.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @wycats
@wycats@littlecalculist@cemerick I think the nickname for this is, “The skinny/fat parentheses debate."1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @raganwald
@raganwald@littlecalculist@cemerick Heh. It's also why I dislike the Seattle.rb style of no-paren method definitions. Eye-lexing failure.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @wycats
@wycats@littlecalculist@cemerick Almost as if making different things look different was a design principle.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
@raganwald @littlecalculist @cemerick Are you saying it's a good thing or a bad thing? For me, it's a good thing, but in moderation.
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Replying to @wycats
@wycats@littlecalculist@cemerick All things in moderation, especially “moderation.”0 replies 1 retweet 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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