Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:24:06 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org>, Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <3C40B786.5020105@nisser.com> References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org> <3C40A017.61885E5A@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > ... > I know nothing about ruby, but I have programmed in perl. For writing > large programs, it can be troublesome, and I think it would be a lot of > work to convert it from ruby to perl. Certainly it would introduce > bugs. > ... Ruby is a true blooded OO language in the spirit of Smalltalk. Perl is not. Ruby invites to OO design, perl less so since it's been grafted on behind the fact. Then there are differences in the exception handling systems, etc., etc. Of course it could be done, but ... Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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