From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T07:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for command line applications

On Apr 26, 2006, at 5:06 PM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> 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.

I don't lose too much sleep over a couple of characters.  I was  
finishing for something significant, maybe an algorithm we could  
improve...  ;)

James Edward Gray II