If Ruby is so excellent and so wonderful to program in, how come you're looking for a Perl to Ruby translator? Surely by now Ruby should have its own masterpieces? Ruby has been available since 1995, which is longer than many of the Perl masterpieces.

So, why doesn't Ruby have its own quality templating system?

In Ruby, we have a language out there now that is very Perlish but supports the notion of 'Programming as a craft' much better than Perl5 does.
What are you saying here? That Ruby is very close to Perl that it even can be called "Perlish", or is it very different due to this "notion of 'Programming as a craft'", whatever that maybe?

I can't help it, but each time if I see someone advocating Ruby, it's like I heard some Python user. Everything is relative to Perl. But if Perl is the measure, Perl is good enough for me.

Are there some features that carry Ruby on their own? (Other than "everything is an object", I don't really care whether "1" is an object. I don't need it. I've programmed for two decades with numbers, and I've never felt restricted that number weren't objects. (And if I really wanted to modify my numbers, I'd use FORTRAN)).

Abigail

In reply to Re: Perl to Ruby translator? by Abigail-II
in thread Perl to Ruby translator? by Anonymous Monk

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