From: Jenda Krynicky <jenda@...>
Date: 2008-06-13T20:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: A crosspost from the Perl Community

David Masover wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 12:21:08 Marc Heiler wrote:
> 
>> Then we compare our solutions. (Only "in-built" stuff is allowed, i.e. 
>> no cpan modules rubygems etc... things would have to be used from 
>> scratch, so that no language gains an inherent advantage over the other)
> 
> That would still potentially be a comparison of standard libraries. And 
> you
> can't get away from that, really.
> 
> But it is a valid point that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 
> Almost no
> one I know who's seen Ruby code argues that Perl is better

We all live in certain communities and we tend to socialize with people 
we have something in common with. So it's not such a surprise that a 
Ruby programmer knows a lot of people who like Ruby ;-)
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