From: jweirich@... Date: 2000-12-03T01:22:21+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:6745] My Perl to Ruby Story (was: perl and ruby) >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph McDonald writes: Joseph> I'm a perl guy checking out ruby. [...] >>>>> "Clemens" == Clemens Hintze writes: Clemens> I was also coming from Python/Perl to Ruby. Hello. My hame is Jim. I, too, am a former Perl guy. I've been using Perl for over 6 years and have been using it for most of my tool building software. Although Perl is great for the quick, one-time scripts, I found myself becoming unsatisfied with it for larger, long term development. Mostly I found it lack of (easy) support for abstractions to be the heart of my dissatisfaction. Arrays and hashs are great and can be used to solve almost any problem; but in the end, I want to write code in terms of the problem space, not entangled with the details of data representation. Yes, you can create objects and abstractions in Perl, but the result is cumbersome and clumsy. This summer I picked up the "Pragmatic Programmer" book and really enjoyed it. When I noticed one of the authors advocating Ruby (Dave Thomas on the XP list, IIRC) and decided to check it out. I found it easy to transfer my Perl experience in to Ruby with very little effort. It was a winner for me. -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net http://w3.one.net/~jweirich --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)