From: David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T16:37:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why "like Perl"?   was: RAA proposal

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> I must ask, though, why copy what Perl has and does?  What makes Ruby
> superior to Perl are the things _unlike_ Perl.  

that doesn't mean all things perl are bad. what makes ruby fun and 
approachable to many is that lots of cool things from perl are copied. 
what makes ruby superior to perl are also things that ruby does _like_ 
perl, but _better_.

i'm not saying that we should copycat CPAN. but when people come to this 
group from time to time asking about a CPAN-like beast, that ought to 
make us think about what features CPAN has that RAA currently doesn't. 
and can we make a better cpan than CPAN (just like ruby is in many 
aspects a better Perl than perl).

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dave