From: Tim Rowe <tim@..._if_not_spam.digitig.co.uk>
Date: 2003-08-21T01:49:35+09:00
Subject: Re: What attracts me to Ruby

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:41:16 +0900, Peter Hickman
<peter@semantico.com> wrote:

>However as a Perl programmer Python didn't seem such a great deal, it was just 
>too close to Perl for me. Ruby however had a large enough gap to make it very 
>interesting (much cleaner OO than Perl).

Interesting view.  I am comfortable with Python, which I came to from
C++/Pascal (not Java) but am struggling with Ruby, and I /thought/ it
was because Ruby was too close to Perl (which I also struggle with).
Looks as if I'll have to find another explanation!