<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 14:05, Amir F <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amirf@null.co.il">amirf@null.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Issac Goldstand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:margol@beamartyr.net" target="_blank">margol@beamartyr.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 31/01/2012 13:56, Gabor Szabo wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:57 PM, ynon perek <<a href="mailto:ynonperek@gmail.com" target="_blank">ynonperek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>> David Hansson (creator of rails) talks about many of the things he likes<br>
>> about ruby - and most of them will probably remind you a lot of perl.<br>
>><br>
>> If you have the hour, I recommend watching (it even has a Larry Wall slide)<br>
>> <a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/lectures/why-ruby/" target="_blank">http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/lectures/why-ruby/</a><br>
>><br>
> Finally I had the time to watch it (instead of doing some more urgent things :)<br>
> In general he had a couple of good points and some questionable ones.<br>
><br>
> What I found interesting is that, outside of that Larry Wall slide, he<br>
> has not mentioned Perl.<br>
><br>
> He bashed Assembly, PHP, Python, Java and Microsoft but not Perl. At<br>
> least not directly.<br>
><br>
</div>Which is especially odd, as IIRC Larry has no problems bashing Ruby :)<br>
<br></blockquote><br></div>That's the thing though, isn't it? It's one thing when you can make your
point, show examples and have an attempt at defending Perl.<br>
One of the most frustrating things is that many from the Ruby community
don't even consider Perl it as something worth mentioning. I often end
up getting the "You're using what?! Do people still use that? What, like
big applications?".<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Sounds so familiar with other language that I use :)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br>Amir<br></div></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Ido <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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