From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T09:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating Perl -> Ruby translation?

At 9:25 AM +0900 1/24/03, 
<bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Jan.23.03@telemark.slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>In article <043001c2be89$0819c9e0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>,
>Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>  >From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
>  >As for XS: I don't know what it is.
>
>- - Consider yourself very lucky. IMHO, it's
>the big reason to prefer Ruby over Perl.
>The Ruby C API is a joy compared to XS.

Oh, come on, XS isn't that bad. Really, it isn't. (Granted, I design 
and implement interpreters for fun, so my opinion may be somewhat 
skewed, but...)
-- 
                                         Dan

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