From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2008-06-03T18:40:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby or Perl?

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:49 AM, joseph collins <joec_49@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 4-If Ruby as good as perl is when processing text?

More or less.  The Perl convention of having empty string and 0 mean
false and the automatic conversion between numbers and strings
sometimes makes text processing in Perl a bit more convenient; on the
other hand, the convention in Ruby makes most other things more
convenient.

Eivind.