• marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That deserves an “always has been” meme… But IMO, Ruby outperled Perl since the beginning.

      Perl doesn’t let you redefine the syntax so that you can write the same program multiple ways. All it does is to encourage multiple programs to have the same meaning.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I never looked at Ruby, but that doesn’t seem like it would be great for readability (although maybe productivity).

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          1 year ago

          People mostly refrain from using it.

          Much like people used to create an idiom in Perl and stick to it.

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          It’s designed to be as readable as english.

          Take that as you will

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        And lets you easily write metal languages due to the way you can pass around blocks. Think configuration as code type stuff.