From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T00:55:32+09:00
Subject: Re: TZ bug in Date and DateTime.strftime formatter?


On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:21 PM, HOPKINSON, Jonathan, GBM wrote:

>> !#$%#$@  (As they used to say in the comic books, not realizing  
>> that they
> were coding in perl)
> Really? I thought it was a Ruby golf solution.
>
> As a newcomer to this list I'm dismayed by the constant anti-Perl  
> snipes.
> TBH its really putting me off getting involved with Ruby at all.
>
> Incidently, I also subscribe to a couple of Python lists where  
> there isn't
> any of this BS.
>
>
> So what is it CPAN envy?
>
>
> "Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do
> the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall,
> who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free.
> I want to give them the freedom to choose."
>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto
>
> !#$%#$@  (As they used to say in the comic books, not realizing  
> that they
> were coding in perl)

Why the thin skin? It's a joke about the way Perl code often appears.  
It's not literally true and not a personal attack on Perl users. On  
the contrary, quite a few Ruby users all have lots of experience with  
Perl and there is no hate towards Perl. I bet a lot of folks around  
here still use Perl. I don't but I still like Perl! At times pieces  
of Perl code can be pretty dense. This is true of most languages