From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2001-03-16T10:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12704] Re: Larry Wall INterview

Amos wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 00:40:02 +0900,
> >>>>> greg strockbine <gstrock@pacbell.net> (gs) writes:
> 
> gs> and generally made myself obnoxious at work
> gs> by telling everyone within ear shot how truly
> gs> great Ruby is.   I'm in love!
> 
> I'm quickly passing obnoxious, or so I suspect.  I've been planting
> seeds of dissent among our Perl rank and file.

I joke with my boss that I'm going to write all of my production scripts
in Ruby to ensure job security, since I would be the only one who knows
it!

Seriously, I would love to do stuff in Ruby but I think my boss, and the
sys admin I have to work with, would kill me.  I have two main gripes
with Perl at the moment - global/local defaults (my, my, my) and the
lack of (non-experimental) thread support.  Other considerations are the
*tons* of support via CPAN for Perl, and considerably better support for
database interaction (DBI, DBD).

I know, I know - this will improve as more people get into the
language.  I've seen a "Ruby to C" converter out there.  Are there any
"Perl2Ruby" converters. :)

Regards,

Dan