From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-04-19T00:30:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Objects in perl6 (rubyish :)

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Grzegorz [UTF-8] Chrupa��a wrote:

> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> 
> 
> > By saying that I should also mention that I never will abandon
> > Ruby for perl6.
> 
> Even if perl6 turns out to be a better, more powerful language (not
> particularly likely but certainly not impossible)?

I switched from Perl as my primary development language to Ruby because it
was faster and easier for me to get things done in Ruby, and the resulting
code was always more readable and thus heasier to maintain.  I've been
keeping up with some of the Perl6 development since before I switched from
Perl to Ruby, and so far I have doubts that any of the proposed changes
are going to make Perl6 a language that is faster and easier to get things
done in, with greater readability, than Ruby.  Perl6 is still a long way
off, so I'll reserve final judgement until there's a concrete language to
play with, but for the foreseeable future I remain solidly committed to
Ruby.


Kirk Haines