Re: perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby

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.

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Re^2: perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby by Anonymous Monk on Sep 12, 2005 at 00:53 UTC
If one wants real OO, but not some sort of heck, Ruby is much nicer. But OO is not always that important.	[reply]
Re^3: perl primary, and keeping multiple languages in your head, and ruby by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 12, 2005 at 09:56 UTC
If one wants real OO, but not some sort of heck, Ruby is much nicer. But OO is not always that important. True, but Ruby doesn't force you to write in an OO style any more than Perl does.	[reply]