From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T20:21:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> Perlists may argue that one
> power of Perl is its huge library (CPAN).  Therefore I'd argue for
> promoting Ruby without comparison.

I think arguing about "power" in Turing-complete languages is silly
at best. "Ruby... more powerful than Perl" is a propaganda slogan, and
works well as one; it doesn't need to be delivered under oath. :)

-- 
<ZenHam> heh, yeah, but Aretha could be reading out /etc/services and
kick just so much ass :)