Re: perl vs ruby

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I think Ruby is not bad, but I like Perl and think that Perl 6 will address most issues that make Ruby more attractive.

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Re: Re: perl vs ruby by Arguile (Hermit) on Oct 28, 2001 at 19:05 UTC
There's also this article recently featured on perl.com. Update: It seems my cut and paste skills are substandard. The link should now work thanks to stefp	[reply]
Ruby book by Hanamaki (Chaplain) on Oct 28, 2001 at 19:52 UTC
I was pretty surprised to find the Ruby article article featured at perl.com, but thinking again it isn't such a surprise: O'Reilly has to sell its Ruby in a Nutshell, and outside of Japan Perl programmers are probably the main audience for such a book. Unfortunately the O'Reilly article missed one of the most important sources for Ruby beginners: There is allready the Programming Ruby book published by Pragmatic Programmers. You can read the whole book in `html` here. So just download Ruby and/or read the free book to get a feeling about Perls little brother. Hanamaki	[reply] [d/l]
Re (tilly) 1: Ruby book by tilly (Archbishop) on Oct 30, 2001 at 09:10 UTC
Missed? You think that O'Reilly omitting the first and only good currently available book in English on Ruby, a book which just happened to be produced by a competitor of theirs, is an accident? Particularly when said book is rather well known, and is one of the main reasons that the language has been getting some press lately? I don't...	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 1: Ruby book by Hanamaki (Chaplain) on Oct 30, 2001 at 19:46 UTC