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Speaking from personal experience - after years of using Perl, switching to Ruby was an immensely pleasant and gratifying experience. Many fewer wtfs per minu
by grammaton 16y ago
Speaking from personal experience - after years of using Perl, switching to Ruby was an immensely pleasant and gratifying experience. Many fewer wtfs per minuite, and a largely expanded set of capabilities. Perl may be capable of 95% of what Ruby can do, but learning the special cases and sticking points is a major PITA.
- __david__ 16y agoFor me, learning Ruby after years of knowing Perl was a resounding "meh." The documentation is substandard compared to Perl's and it doesn't really offer anything that Perl does except for less weirdness in the nooks and crannies and some improved syntactic sugar in some cases (though when I look at Ruby code all I see is "end end end end end"). And Python certainly has its own feel. But again it's not really any more powerful than Perl and offers nothing but an alternate simplified syntax. Programming in Python makes me really miss Perl--I always feel like I'm speaking baby talk instead of full blown English. Really elegant baby talk, but baby talk none the less.