From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2003-12-01T13:18:27+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Chris Uppal wrote:
> [I'm an outsider delurking on this newsgroup for the first time]
> 
> I want to add the observation that the Perlisms in Ruby were a major (perhaps
> *the* major) factor that put me off the language when I looked at it a year or
> so ago.

There's always Python for you. :-)

There are lots of Perl programmers, and Pythonisms in Python (obviously 
:-) are a major turn off for them. I am one of them. When I found Ruby, 
I am delighted that many "useful" things in Perl are also present in Ruby.

Also, not all Perlisms are disgusting or hacks. Regexp 
literals/operators, for example (although they don't come originally 
from Perl) really help cleanliness of appearance. In languages that must 
use strings to express regexp, you can see the proliferation of 
backslashes or string concatenation that looks ugly.

Anyway, Ruby is Matz' language, and Matz _is/was_ a Perl programmer. In 
fact, he wanted a better Perl for him when designing Ruby.

-- 
dave