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I had a quick look at Ruby a little while ago. Now I know that it's unfair to make judgements about languages without using them in anger to actually *see* the benefits and costs. However what struck me at the time (and I think it's still kinda true) is that Ruby's did not offer clear benefits over the existing solutions.
For instance, take a look at Ruby's comparison page. It's improvements over Perl are: nicer syntax, different default scoping, cleaner integration of object-orientedness. The first two hardly make for a decisive argument. The OO integration model is nicer than Perl but I don't think that this alone make for a compelling argument to switch to Ruby. I might be prejudiced here, but I basically believe that many who like Perl do so because it's a very free-form language, suitable for quick hacks. Thats my 2 cents anyway. However as I mentioned at the top I have never taken a significant amount of time to try and implement anything in Ruby. What about anybody else? Does anyone with experience of Perl and Ruby want to share their feelings? In reply to Re: One more perl programmer's take on Ruby (discussion)
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