From: "Kroeger Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T17:48:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby!

> > [..snip..]
> > Python because of its Perl roots.  
> 
> I find this somewhat baffling.  I'm aware that Matz was influenced by 
> certain aspects of Perl, but I really don't see any alleged 
> "Perl roots" 
> when coding Ruby.  (My biased take is that this is something 
> Pythonitas 
> like to toss out about any language that allows more than one 
> way to do 
> anything.)  

At least for someone who never coded Perl, the mere existance
of the following is kind of frightening:

$! $@ $& $+ $` $' $= $1 to $9 $/ $-0 $\ $, $. $; $< $> $_ $-F 
$0 $* $" $$ $? $: $-a $-d $F $-i $-I $-K $-l $-p $-v $-w 

This reminds me in a sad way of some realy unreadable Makefiles
and is (again, to a non perler) strongly associated with the
coding style of perl. (which may be bogus)

I'm not aware of a single meaning of the above and I have no 
intention to change this. (and no need fortunately, if I had
to I wouldn't read this ML) 

cheers

Simon