From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-25T16:27:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about 2005 Ruby critique...

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:58:09PM +0900, Gaspard Bucher wrote:
> 
> PS:
> (I like the "postmodern mess" of Perl, but it tended to jump back at
> me a couple of weeks later. I feel I have the same freedom with Ruby,
> with a more secure feeling allowing me to write large applications
> without fear. Perl was the first language I felt joyful with. Ruby
> took the same path in my heart.)

I like that description of your feelings about Perl and Ruby.  I feel
similarly, with the exception that Ruby doesn't really make me feel any
safer than Perl -- because I feel "safe" enough with both.  Where Perl
falls down for me, as compared with Ruby, is basically just where object
oriented programming is called for.  OOP in Perl is kind of a painful
experience, especially compared with Ruby.  On the other hand, there's a
lot of coding that really doesn't have any need for OOP and, in many
cases, might even be made more difficult or otherwise less "good" by
forcing it into an OOP paradigm -- and for that stuff, Perl is still one
of my favorite languages.

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