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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

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