On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:21:45 -0400 (EDT), Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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