From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T17:25:52+09:00
Subject: Re: New user questions


"Florian Gross" <flgr@ccan.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:35l3tbF4lqk45U1@individual.net...
> brundlefly76 wrote:

<snip/>

> > 4. Any Perl programmers have any comments on their experiences working
> > with Ruby?
>
> I've enjoyed the switch a lot. I assumed that Ruby was unlike Perl and I
> suppose that helped with avoiding some of the potential gotchas. With
> Ruby it was also natural to organize my applications in parts that
> easily allowed for refactoring and reusing. The only reason I might have
> today for using Perl over Ruby (I've not done this since quite a few
> months) would be availability.

+1

IMHO one of the major advantages of Ruby is that it's OO all over while
Perl's OO was retrofitted.

Kind regards

    robert