I came across a reference to the elastiC language in a blog entry by Hans Nowak. Hans starts out his blog entry with this …

elastiC. Quite an interesting language; Pythonic in many ways. At first glance, it seems to combine some good stuff from Python, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp and C. …

Ok, sounds interesting. I always enjoy new languages. So I clicked over for a quick look at the elastiC site. With the exception of C-Like syntax and small footprint, the list of languages features were very reminiscent of Ruby. I did a quick scan of the language docs and it reminded me a lot of Objective-C, but I didn’t see anything to hold my interest.

As I return to Hans’ blog entry, I noticed his next sentence …

… Yet (again at first glance) it doesn’t seem as kludgy as Ruby.

What!? Ruby? Kludgy? Certainly not!

And yet, Hans seems to think so. Perhaps Hans has given Ruby the same quick once over that I just gave elastiC and didn’t see the unifying principles behind Ruby. If so, I can forgive him the slight.

And then again, maybe Hans just has different tastes in programming languages. After all, my daughter professes that GoldStar Chili is the best in the world, while I maintain that Skyline Chili has no peer — and we are able to live in the same house.

It sounds like Hans is a Gold Star type of guy.

That’s OK, because I going to continue eating at Skyline.