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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:
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.
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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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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