From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-12-03T04:44:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6750] Re: My Perl to Ruby Story (was: perl and rub	y)

> The main disadvantage of Ruby is, that there is no CPAN for
> Ruby. 

Umm.. that's true. The name of the thing is RAA and it's at
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html . If you meant that RAA isn't exactly
like CPAN, you're completely right. But I think it satisfies the simple
needs we currently have.

> Perl has modules for everything

That's a great feature of Perl. I'm not sure if there will be ever as many
modules for Ruby, nor that if it should be the target of the community. CPAN
gives hard times for newbies for example when they have to choose which
library to use to parse the help switch for "my_simple_program -h"
(http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/12_Opt_Arg_Param_Proc/Getopt
/). 

And after third package someone says "psst... there's no need to use any
package, just say perl -s" :).

	- Aleksi