From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-04-27T07:06:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for command line applications

Hi --

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Jake McArthur wrote:
>
>> More powerful than Perl (IMHO), but not as concise.
>
> Could you given a small example program in Perl that is lengthier in Ruby? 
> (Just curious.)

s/// stuff is shorter than sub(//,'') stuff.


David

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