From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-07-26T15:51:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18562] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python?

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:18521] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python?"
>     on 01/07/25, Piers Cawley <pdcawley@iterative-software.com> writes:
> 
> |Oh yes. For me, Perl has the Quality Without A Name in spades. It's
> |an easy language to live and work in.
> 
> For me, Ruby has the Quality Without A Name in heart. I feel warm
> inside when I live and work in Ruby. ;-)
> 
> 							matz.

You do realise that spades outrank hearts don't you. But probably only
if you're playing bridge.

> p.s.
> Sorry I couldn't resist.

Nor could I. Ruby is the first language in the (for want of a better
description) 'perl space' I've actually wanted to learn; the generally
friendly attitude on this list only increases the desire. (And reading
the Pickaxe book in parallel with the purple Smalltalk book is a
somewhat mind expanding experience...)

-- 
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com