[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: discussion Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4

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> > Ruby is Perl for people that want to be a little more like Python. 
> 
> Not exactly.  Ruby doesn't have problems 1-3 above, but it really 
> does have some *very* different features from both Perl and Python.  
> Alas, it doesn't have CPAN, and that is kind of a big deal.

But CPAN has Rubyisms. So you can use some of the features that didn't *used* to
be available in Perl, but are in Ruby. And some of Ruby's syntactic sugar too.

http://search.cpan.org/~simon/rubyisms-1.0/rubyisms.pm

> Also, there's no question that prototype-based languages can take
> some getting used-to. The "real" Javascript that might have been is
> Ecmascript 4, and that might actually happen now.  Probably before 
> Perl6 comes down the pike.

Check out Tibet for some things you can do in Javascript alone....

http://www.technicalpursuit.com/

Mike/

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