3 sats \ 2 replies \ @nerd2ninja 5 Aug 2022 \ parent \ on: What do you think about Googles new programming language Carbon? bitcoin
I definitely have a "first love" bias. As in the first language I learned can do no wrong and everything else just looks terrible (though ruby and python are so similar that I can easily switch to that)
You know just compare these two examples:
Java https://www.javatpoint.com/java-program-to-count-the-total-number-of-vowels-and-consonants-in-a-string
Ruby (this ruby code is not good, but you can tell it was made for people who are new and just trying to learn) https://medium.com/@PolinaHackTech/count-vowels-in-a-string-in-ruby-app-academy-prep-work-20700832d2f5
Java:
public class CountVowelConsonant {    
    public static void main(String[] args) {    
            
        //Counter variable to store the count of vowels and consonant    
        int vCount = 0, cCount = 0;    
            
        //Declare a string    
        String str = "This is a really simple sentence";    
            
        //Converting entire string to lower case to reduce the comparisons    
        str = str.toLowerCase();    
            
        for(int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {    
            //Checks whether a character is a vowel    
            if(str.charAt(i) == 'a' || str.charAt(i) == 'e' || str.charAt(i) == 'i' || str.charAt(i) == 'o' || str.charAt(i) == 'u') {    
                //Increments the vowel counter    
                vCount++;    
            }    
            //Checks whether a character is a consonant    
            else if(str.charAt(i) >= 'a' && str.charAt(i)<='z') {      
                //Increments the consonant counter    
                cCount++;    
            }    
        }    
        System.out.println("Number of vowels: " + vCount);    
        System.out.println("Number of consonants: " + cCount);    
    }    
}
Ruby
def count_vowels(string)
    vowels = 0
    counter = 0
    while counter < string.length do
      if string[counter]=="a" || string[counter]=="e" || string[counter]=="i" || string[counter]=="o" || string[counter]=="u"
        vowels += 1
      end
      counter += 1
    end
    return vowels
end

def count_consonants(string)
    consonants = 0
    counter = 0
    while counter < string.length do
      if string[counter]!="a" && string[counter]!="e" && string[counter]!="i" && string[counter]!="o" && string[counter]!="u" && string[counter]!=" "
        puts consonants += 1
      end
      counter += 1
    end
    return consonants
end
vowels = count_vowels("La la Land i like a lot")
consonants = count_consonants("La la Land i like a lot")

puts "#{vowels + consonants}"
But you know, maybe the more honest answer is that I don't know java and I do know ruby.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 5 Aug 2022
No no, I get that. Programming Java is always a whole thing instead of just a small script. That makes it ugly. I get that.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pi 6 Aug 2022
This example says nothing about the language but the programmers. The java code is not as elegantly written as the ruby code.
Indeed, putting everything in the main method instead of creating two separate ones is lazy and amateurish, and would not pass a serious code review.
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