From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T04:56:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Perl performance

Robert Dober wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> I haven't done enough C to say for sure, but I loved Perl's OO. There
>> definitely seems to be more there -- inheritance via @ISA, constructors via
>> bless -- and while some find it ugly to expose all the underpinnings, that
>> is one thing I love about Perl.
>>     
>
> Are you aware that Perl's MI via @ISA is probably the worst way one
> can implement MI in?
>   

I've been thinking about it for a bit, and no, I'm really not. Aside 
from (maybe) performance, what's wrong with that implementation? After 
all, Ruby has Module#ancestors, and the trick is older than dirt as the 
various PATH variables in Unix.