From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-09-21T15:30:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Are Ruby regexp's a subset, superset, or equal to Perl's?

On 20.09.2009 19:03, Fabian Streitel wrote:
>> "hackish" does not qualify a language for me.
> 
> well... different people, different views.

Indeed.

> I personally think that almost
> any language is good for something, but none for everything -- and Perl is
> my favourite for quick, dirty, < 10 lines text hacks ;-)
> 
> Ruby is for almost all the rest of course...

:-)  With me it is different: whenever I need to write together a quick 
script I turn to Ruby (or Bourne shell if Ruby is not present on that 
system).

Cheers

	robert

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