From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T11:11:12+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the weaknesses in Ruby?

Marc Heiler wrote:
>> What are the disadvantages of Ruby?
> 
> That too many people still use perl. Especially old, but smart C 
> hackers, who could help out more with ruby than riding the dead horse 
> perl. ;-)

I managed to bypass C and went straight from Fortran to Awk and then 
Perl. I recently was "asked" to port a Perl program to C for "speed". Ick.