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Ruby’s heavier use of key words rather than symbols saves it from the worst of Perl. Yes, there’s still some symbols, but nowhere near as many.
by ashtonkem 6y ago
Ruby’s heavier use of key words rather than symbols saves it from the worst of Perl.
Yes, there’s still some symbols, but nowhere near as many.
- allis10 6y agoFor what it's worth, non-alphanumeric Ruby is Turing-complete: https://ideone.com/55WtMM https://ideone.com/55WtMM
- qiqitori 6y agoExplanation: https://threeifbywhiskey.github.io/2014/03/05/non-alphanumeric-ruby-for-fun-and-not-much-else/ https://threeifbywhiskey.github.io/2014/03/05/non-alphanumer...
- wrp 6y agoThe "line noise" aspect of Perl never bothered me, because I'm already a heavy user of regexes. The cause of my misery was Perl's "There Is More Than One Way To Do It."
- cutler 6y agoTIMTOWTDI is what I loved about Perl and the reason I found the transition to Ruby so enjoyable.