From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T19:51:03+09:00
Subject: Re: New user questions

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:29:02 +0900, Dick Davies
<rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote:
> * Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> [0127 08:27]:
> >
> > "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.
> 
> Definitely, that's the seller. A lot of the gurus on the list build awesome
> object frameworks with ruby - i just use it because  it makes scripts easier
> to type and read than perl. although enlightenment does seep into my head
> by hanging about here too.
> 
> The OOP is *so* much better than perls (it's actually usable) that you can
> take advantage of it even in a 25-line cron script while still
> enjoying yourself.
> 
> As for the availability, it's easy to think 'well, i have perl already,
> so I'll knock out a perl script' but that has bitten me so many times in
> the last year (when someone wants a new feature) that my new year resolution
> was to break the habit.
> 
> I finally put it on one of our servers last week
> after wasting an hour trying to get perl oop back in its box. It was quicker
> to download ruby (only 3Mb, I get emails from my manager bigger than that),
> build it and rewrite the script (an apache server-status -> snmp bridge)
> than to trawl around CPAN crying.

Heh, but that's no reason realy, is it? ;-)

> 
> You don't even need root if you install it in ~/bin and if it gets the
> job done in a morning rather than a week, who's going to care?
> 
> --
> 'When the door hits you in the ass on the way out, clean off the smudge
>  your ass leaves, please'
>                 -- Alien loves Predator
> Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
> 
> 


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