On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 14:05, Amir F <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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?". >
Sounds so familiar with other language that I use :) > > Amir > Ido > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >
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