From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-10-24T05:12:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby cookbook

David A. Black ha scritto:
> Hi --
> 
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:52:01AM +0900, Tom Ayerst wrote:
>>
>>> http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/index.html
>>
>>
>> Umm, yes.  Thanks.  Was there anything else to this message besides the
>> URL?  Note that I don't consider PLEAC to be anything like a Ruby
>> Cookbook.  As a very quick cursive glance it looks much more to be Ruby
>> mimiking Perl...
> 
> 
> I get the impression that that's the underlying goal of the project:
> to show what other languages can do, but circumscribed by as much
> similarity and proximity to Perl as possible.
> 
> 
> David

probably the pleac guys will accept more rubyish contruibutions, but the 
problems treated were thought for perl, and this reflects somewhat in 
the code (i.e "ruby -i" stuff)