From: John Johnson <jj5412@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T08:56:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

on 6/11/03 7:16 PM, Marek Janukowicz at childNOSPAM@t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl
wrote:

> 
> I am going to write an article to a software magazine titled "Ruby as an
> alternative to Perl". There are some obvious advantages of Ruby over
> Perl:
> 
> - Ruby is fully object oriented
> - blocks
> - introspection
> - very little difference between compile time and runtime
> 
> Could you give me some more clues (I am missing a lot for sure)?
> 
> TIA
I wouldn't word it this way for a magazine, but, you don't have to do that
god-awful blessing to create objects. Objects are first class citizens, not
a tacked on after thought.
The syntax and culture of Ruby encourage more readable and maintainable
code. Ie. less Snoopy swearing (@&$^^#@!).

Regards,
  JJ