From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T03:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: New user questions


"Mohammad Khan" <mkhan@lextranet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1106671849.15925.12.camel@localhost.localdomain...
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:00, brundlefly76 wrote:
> > I have been a production Perl programmer for about 10 years, and am
> > looking into tinkering with Ruby, and had a few questions:
> >
> > 1. I noticed Ruby was not installed by default on Suse 9.2 (although a
> > package was available in Yast). Does anyone have any information on
> > what Linux distributions *do* install Ruby by default, and any
progress
> > on that? Because of the nature of my work, its not too convenient for
> > me to go installing interpreters on every machine I need to work on.
> >
> > 2. How fast do Ruby releases move - say in comparison to Perl? I cant
> > tell if it moves very slowly or simply has a versioning scheme that
> > belies this.
> >
> > 3. Is anyone here running Ruby in a production environment, and for
> > what applications?
> >
> > 4. Any Perl programmers have any comments on their experiences working
> > with Ruby?
>
> When I was introduced with ruby by my boss, I was using Perl for about
> 3+ years at that  time. It was about 2 years back.
> I am not using Perl for at least 18 months.

So you're clean now. :-)

    robert

> Mohammad
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> > Thanks for any info!
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