From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T13:57:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about 2005 Ruby critique...

On 9/24/07, barcaroller <barcaroller@music.net> wrote:
> I come from a C/C++/Perl background and I have been reading up on Ruby for a
> while (no hands-on experience yet, except for a few tutorials).  Most of the
> stuff sounds/looks very positive but I recently found this critique of the
> Ruby language on the web and I was wondering whether these statements have
> any validity at all.
>
>
> ========================================
> Ruby: better than Perl - but what isn't?
> ----------------------------------------

Just a single correction here.. I won't bother with the rest..
The "side-effect globals" the author abhors are actually thread-local,
so they don't present a problem for multithreaded code. They just
happen to look like 'regular' globals.