From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-10T21:56:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Hi --

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Det wrote:

> On the other hand I did never _expect_ Ruby to work in any
> cases exactly like the other languages I know (if it would
> I had no reason to switch :-) ).

That's a great way to put it.  It goes together well with a
quote from "Anonymous" on Ruby Garden a while back:

 "I would like to evolve FROM Perl, Java and C++ rather than TO Perl,
  Java and C++."


David

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