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. > > -- > Chris Devers > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > >
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