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Ruby really is Perl done right. I can't really see any argument for Perl over Ruby as a language.

• dhosek 6y ago
  use strict. In Perl you can prevent something like the following from compiling. You can't with Ruby (unless they've finally addressed that). $foo = 2; if (some_test()) { $fooo = 3; }
  • cutler 6y ago
    Shouldn't that be: my $foo = 2; ?
    • dhosek 6y ago
      I was leaving the declaration implicit.
• ulysses 6y ago
  Speed. I moved mostly to Ruby years ago, but when doing lots of text processing, a trivial script in Perl runs a lot faster than a similar trivial script in Ruby.