Faulty reasoning or poor writing? gotcha

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From the descriptive text to Ruby installer on the coverdisc (DVD) of a well respected IT publication in the UK (these guys really should know better, they attempt to give the impression that they are all IT PROs):<br /><br /><b>Unlike Perl or PHP, Ruby requires no line termination when writing code, making it an ideal language for quick development tasks.</b><br /><br />I do not question & cannot verify or dispute that Ruby may surpass other languages when it comes to 'quick development tasks' (if you can come up with a workable definition - or indeed any defitnition for what is a quick development task, else how can you ever hope to test & validate the claim?)<br /><br />However I am almost 100% certain that if this were true it would not in any way depend on line termination syntax.<br /><br />Am I missing the point?<br /><br /><span class='edit'>This post has been edited by <b>xof</b>: 28 Aug, 2006 - 01:15 AM</span>
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