>>>>> "Jorg" == Jorg Ziefle <gt4556a / prism.gatech.edu> writes:

Jorg> Have you switched to Ruby now or why are you (so active) on this
Jorg> list?

Why a need to "switch"?  I'm always looking for the best tool for a
job -- EACH job.  Just so happens that most of the jobs I've had over
the past 10 years, Perl's been the best tool. :)

In some ways, being so closely associated with the Perl core team has
been a two-edged sword... I've gotten respect by association, but
there have been parties I've to which I've been specifically
uninvited. :)

I'm a very practical broad-based guy: I've got code or patches in
distros ranging from the GNU Emacs to Icon to the Squeak Smalltalk
codebase.  About the only place that *doesn't* have code from me right
now is the Perl distro!  (Although I helped design and advise some of
the Perl constructs.)

There are certainly some cool things in Ruby.  Too bad Ruby isn't
about 3 years further along the cycle... it's gonna play catchup to
Perl forever for those that are comparing such things.  Python suffers
similarly.

Jorg> P.s.: Do you think Perl6 can pick up some of the nice paradigms/idioms
Jorg> of Ruby and Pyton?  There were even rumors that Perl6 will be able to
Jorg> interpret Ruby/Python scripts ...

It's hard to say at the moment *what* Perl6 will be.  My first guess
is that the delta between perl5 and the first release of perl6 will be
a proper subset of the RFCs submitted and presented to Larry Wall which
he is currently considering.  (http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ if you're curious.)

There are certainly some features in there that would add to Perl some
of the features that Ruby has that Perl hasn't (yet).

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