From: Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T06:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for command line applications

On Apr 26, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Kirk Haines wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 3:31 pm, Jake McArthur wrote:
>
>> Ruby: [...] More powerful than Perl (IMHO), but not as concise.
>
> I would argue that point. [...]
>
> Kirk Haines

I was talking about the way people generally use the two languages:  
Perl => quick hacks; Ruby => engineered solutions. Yes, if you  
typically engineer your Perl code, then your engineered Ruby code  
will probably be shorter.

- Jake McArthur