[cumbria_lug] To Python, or not to Python?

Rosalind Mitchell rcm at swimbarrow.co.uk
Thu Apr 9 09:06:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:01 +0100, Luke Antins wrote:
> Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
> > I'm not in a hurry.  I like working in Perl and I had a crack at Ruby
> > for a while and that's nice but I still prefer Perl.
> >    
> What didn't you like about Ruby? It's supposedly 'like Perl', but I never
> properly wrapped my head around Perl to comment on that :-)

There's nothing I dislike about Ruby - it's neat and the online
documentation is more lucid than that of Perl.  It's just that the more
anarchic nature of Perl suits me!

Rosie




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