From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T07:44:44+09:00
Subject: RE: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

> Agreed.  Until now, I still mistakenly use the "." operator from time to
> time in Ruby, just because of the previous Perl experience, which was
> very natural.

I used to bounce back and forth between writing or maintaining ActiveServer
Page code written in JavaScript and VBScript.  VB uses the ampersand to
concat strings; JavaScript used '+'.  If one mistakenly uses the ampersand
in JavaScript, it simply takes it as a logic operation and goes merrily in
its way ...


James