From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T09:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

* Marek Janukowicz <childNOSPAM@t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl> [030612 00:17]:
> 
> 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

and OOP is *easy to use* - much more so than C++ and Java - certainly
more so than Perls afterthought OOP.

> - blocks
> - introspection
> - very little difference between compile time and runtime
> 
> Could you give me some more clues (I am missing a lot for sure)?

C interfacing seems a lot more straightforward, too.

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