From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata Date: 2002-09-09T22:11:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby Oh yes, there is no doubt about it. I just regretted that for a clever man as Larry Wall, he still does not want to learn from his language successor or to admit that the language "art" has progressed much since he first wrote Perl. Regards, Bill ============================================================================ Gavin Sinclair wrote: >> Then finally, after I learned all the OO stuff, I got the quite pleasant >> surprise, that I actually already programmed in OO since the beginning as >> the simple script above is actually inside the class Object. What can be >> better than this? Even in Java people have to be choked with endless >> keywords and object stuff since the beginning. I would not hesitate to >> say that Matz is much more genius than Larry! > Whoa! Larry Wall is an extremely clever man. Perl is a major work of modern > art, as ugly as all the rest of modern art. This is potentially flamewar > territory (though this group usually survives those pretty well), but let me > just say politely that Ruby borrows a lot from Perl - both in positive features > to extract and negatives to leave behind.