From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T11:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

On 11 Jun 2003 23:08:02 GMT
Marek Janukowicz <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)?

If I were you, I would not stress individual advantages, because somebody will say "Language X can do this too!" Ruby is a great language because it's easy to use. It's easy to write clean OO. There's a thousand little conveniences spread throughout the language. It doesn't make you write stuff just so the compiler's happy.

Jason Creighton