On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Issac Goldstand <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 31/01/2012 13:56, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:57 PM, ynon perek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> David Hansson (creator of rails) talks about many of the things he likes > >> about ruby - and most of them will probably remind you a lot of perl. > >> > >> If you have the hour, I recommend watching (it even has a Larry Wall > slide) > >> http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/lectures/why-ruby/ > >> > > Finally I had the time to watch it (instead of doing some more urgent > things :) > > In general he had a couple of good points and some questionable ones. > > > > What I found interesting is that, outside of that Larry Wall slide, he > > has not mentioned Perl. > > > > He bashed Assembly, PHP, Python, Java and Microsoft but not Perl. At > > least not directly. > > > Which is especially odd, as IIRC Larry has no problems bashing Ruby :) > > That's the thing though, isn't it? It's one thing when you can make your point, show examples and have an attempt at defending Perl. One of the most frustrating things is that many from the Ruby community don't even consider Perl it as something worth mentioning. I often end up getting the "You're using what?! Do people still use that? What, like big applications?". Amir
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