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0 pointsearthboundkid5y ago0 comments

Ruby really is Perl done right. I can't really see any argument for Perl over Ruby as a language.

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Speed. I moved mostly to Ruby years ago, but when doing lots of text processing, a trivial script in Perl runs a lot faster than a similar trivial script in Ruby.

dhosek5y ago

use strict. In Perl you can prevent something like the following from compiling. You can't with Ruby (unless they've finally addressed that).

   $foo = 2;
   if (some_test()) {
      $fooo = 3;
   }

cutler5y ago

Shouldn't that be:

    my $foo = 2;

?

dhosek5y ago

I was leaving the declaration implicit.

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ulysses5y ago

Speed. I moved mostly to Ruby years ago, but when doing lots of text processing, a trivial script in Perl runs a lot faster than a similar trivial script in Ruby.

dhosek5y ago

use strict. In Perl you can prevent something like the following from compiling. You can't with Ruby (unless they've finally addressed that).

   $foo = 2;
   if (some_test()) {
      $fooo = 3;
   }

cutler5y ago

Shouldn't that be:

    my $foo = 2;

?

dhosek5y ago

I was leaving the declaration implicit.

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