From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T18:37:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Beautiful Code : Pity he didn't ask here...

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:07:55PM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
> 
> i've been writing oo-perl for many moons, setting $/ to slurp files  
> and all that...  nevertheless the are features of ruby that attracted  
> to me it from the context of perl and continue to stand out when  
> selecting one of the two languages for a particular purpose.  the  
> power of ruby is that of abstraction and cleanliness.

All else being equal, if I have call to write OO code, I'll always choose
Ruby over Perl.  All else is not always equal, and sometimes OOP is not
the most effective approach to solving a problem, however.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."