From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T11:47:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's role in future operating systems

Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> You are in for a treat. I went along the same path, but now most of my
> scripts use objects and they are maintained with the greatest of ease.
> Oh the massive Perl spaghetti that I have converted to a few lines of
> elegant, easy-to-read Ruby makes me say: I think you should start
> forcing yourself to do all new scripts in Ruby instead. You'll be
> happier almost immediately.
>
> After working in Perl for so long, I like to think of Ruby as the
> thing Perl is trying to be.
I think Matz would agree ... he saw some things that were icky in Perl
and came up with something a lot better. Perl is to some extent saddled
with having more legacy code than the "younger" scripting languages.
Ruby reads more like a real programming language than a scripting language.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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