I've chewed through a Ruby book myself recently. I find it's a really nice lil language. I wouldn't mind at all if circumstances forced me to work in it. As it is though, seeing how its blackbox approach to "clean" OO frees one from the headaches Perl OO can induce only made me desire Perl 6 more. :) I plan on doing a bit of actual coding in Ruby just to get a better feel for the language as I do already like the looks of it, but chances are it won't manage to pry me away from Perl by a long shot, and if only because its community and code archive are so small for the time being, although none of this relates to my tendency to write long run-on sentences. %-)

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^4: Why I choose Perl by Aristotle
in thread Why I choose Perl by merlyn

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