From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T14:40:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:19:11PM +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
> 
> "Marek Janukowicz" <childNOSPAM@t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
> >  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)?
> 
> -- Ruby has native (and hence very portable) and clean threading support.
???
I guess you meant that Ruby has *no* native threads but rather green
threads, etc...

But I'm not sure this would be perceived as an advantage: some people
don't care about threads working in DOS or portability.

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