Anyone here have comments on Ruby?

I like it. I like it a lot. I still spend most of my day with Perl 5 since that's what most of the rest of the world is using. However I think I'll end up more productive in Ruby than in Perl 5 with a little more effort on my part.

Until Perl 6 hits the streets (and possibly afterwards - who knows), or the world finally realises what nice languages Lisp and Smalltalk are, Ruby is a darn fine language.

To be honest I've not found it that much of a mental clash with Perl 5. The only mistakes I commonly make are adding/forgetting the $ prefix in Ruby/Perl, and a tendency to mix up def/sub.

In reply to Re: perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby by adrianh
in thread perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby by water

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