From: Doc O'Leary Date: 2010-11-26T04:15:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby's "More than one way to do things." In article , Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > I cannot speak for the Perl community, but for > us, the slogan expresses the importance of diversity. But we do not > love diversity for no reason. We do not want confusion, for the sake > of diversity. As someone who still has much more Perl under their belt than Ruby, mark me down as one of the people who appreciates that. I can't count the number of times I've come across Perl code that does crazy stuff just because someone wanted to show off how well they knew deep language tricks more than they wanted write maintainable code. Combined with the cruft Perl has accumulated over the years, it's not hard to explain to people why Ruby makes a better go-to scripting language in most cases. -- iPhone apps that matter: http://appstore.subsume.com/ My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, astraweb.com, and probably your server, too.