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Although I'm a Python programmer, I urge you to take at least a cursory look at Ruby. It's actually very different from Perl. Ruby borrows some stuff from Smal
by GeneralMaximus 17y ago
Although I'm a Python programmer, I urge you to take at least a cursory look at Ruby. It's actually very different from Perl.
Ruby borrows some stuff from Smalltalk. You know what other language borrows heavily from Smalltalk? Objective-C :)
- davidw 17y agoPart of what makes the difference is cultural. It is of course possible to write very legible Perl code, but that was, at least for a time, far less visible than the "cool hack in 1 line of extremely dense code" culture, and all the "more than one way to do it!" stuff. Ruby can be messy, but there is a tendency to keep a lid on it.