[YLUG] I.T. consultancies/software houses in York area?

[Simon Ward]

Arthur Clune wrote:

> Serious question - why Ruby? I tend to view it as Perl 6
   That's an interesting take on things.

   Although Ruby does tend to look like what you'd get if you rammed 
Python and Perl together at high speed, it's handling of object 
orientation is streets ahead of Perl 5 (whose OO capabilities I maintain 
are a horrific kludge) but not quite as nice as Python. I tried to get 
enthusiastic about it, but it seemed too much like reinvention of the 
wheel and not exactly suitable for the kind of things I'm apt to write 
anyway.

   Then again, my language compass is spinning at high speed as a result 
of playing with C# and IronPython :-)

Simon