On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Marek Janukowicz wrote:

>
> I am going to write an article to a software magazine titled "Ruby as an
> alternative to Perl". There are some obvious advantages of Ruby over
> Perl:
>
> - Ruby is fully object oriented
> - blocks
> - introspection
> - very little difference between compile time and runtime
>
> Could you give me some more clues (I am missing a lot for sure)?

- comp.lang.ruby

i think i've learned more about programming, especially object oriented
programming, on this list that from any other resource.  in addition to that
it is easily the nicest list in town too.  seriously, i have only been using
newsgroups for about 1 1/2 years, but i think it is a serious factor to
consider when chosing any open source software - oreily books can't do it all.

-a
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