From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T04:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Perl performance

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:52:50AM +0900, David Masover wrote:
>=20
> But I think that's getting even more offtopic, so to bring it back to=20
> Ruby... The one piece that really seems out of place is the Regex=20
> syntax, but I can't complain. Everything else, whether pure or not,=20
> comes together in such a way as to make it easy to turn it into whatever=
=20
> you need -- Markaby is another example of why not to build templating=20
> into the core language. Why put something in the core language when it=20
> can be done in a DSL?

My attitude is that PHP *is* a DSL.  It actually started out as a DSL
written in Perl, in fact -- then spun off into its own monstrosity,
notable in positive respects just for its eventual ubiquity and the fact
it ran faster on its own than it did as a Perl library.  I guess that's
just one man's opinion, though.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth McCloctnick the Lucid: "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't
waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will
do."

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