• Lil' Bobby Tables@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Allow me to clarify.

    C has for, while, and do-while. That's it.

    Ruby has for, while, do-while, until, rescue, inlined conditionals, optionals, and iterators, for what amounts to the same task; not to mention exceptions (something the C standard has repeated swerved away from, wisely) and lambdas.

    I'm not saying that there isn't a time for Ruby, but if you think C falls into the same category then we're very much in disagreement.

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      C has for, while, do-while, goto and recursion.

      How exactly are rescue, inlined conditionals and optionals used for creating loops? Also Ruby's for and while do different things, unlike for and while in C.