From: David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T20:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: wait for more perl programmers! (Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?)

dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
>>ruby tries very hard to be a better perl, while python is just too
>>different from perl that perl programmers will miss all these features:
>>
>>- builtin regexes;
>>- command line options (-i, -n, -p);
>>- special variables ($_, $0..$9);
>>- tainting;
>>- all that nice quoting operators (qw//, qr//, qq//);
> 
> However, from the Ruby ToDo file:
> 
>   * discourage use of symbol variables (e.g. $/, etc.) in manual
>   * discourage use of Perlish features by giving warnings.

hm, i wonder what is the list of features that the author (matz?) decide 
as perlish and should be discouraged. so far i've been excited because 
many of the nifty perl features are present in ruby. (i admit these 
usually only mean the builtin regex operator, the perl re language [with 
only few differences], the flexible quoting mechanism, and the command 
line options. i almost never use $/ and the likes nowadays).

-- 
dave