On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote:
> To Randal and Chris. You all don't understand me.
There is a misunderstanding, but I'm not sure that it's Randal & me.
> CGI is a module, earlier
> wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects.
And Python objects live where -- the sky? The stars?
> Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code:
>
> s = "I am Perl guru";
> new_s = s.replace("Perl", "Python");
No, you're using Python's built in string operators. Perl has them too:
$s = "I am a Perl guru";
( $new_s = $s ) =~ s/perl/python/;
Remark, no additional modules.
> Huh? Remark, no addition modules.
You're using methods defined by modules that live with Python.
Why bother splitting this hair? It's a distinction without a difference.
> By the way, these languages have people friendly exceptions handling ;) with
> try-except in Python and begin-rescue in Ruby.
You haven't come across eval{...} yet, have ya?
The differences among Perl, Python, and Ruby are mostly semantic -- each
of them can accomplish all the same tasks, but they wrap up the way to
implement these tasks in ever-so-slightly different syntax. But so what?
Any of them are *much* more pleasant to work with than Java, C/C++, or
*shudder* Visual Basic.
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Chris Devers
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