Is anyone familiar with Ruby? If so, how do you think it stacks up against
perl? I'm looking to learn another unix scripting lang and it looks like
Ruby may be a good fit.
Some excerpts from their web site:
"Ruby's syntax and design philosophy are heavily influenced by Perl. It has
a lot of syntactic variability. Statement modifiers (if, unless, while,
until, etc.) may appear at the end of any statement. Some key words are
optional (the ``then'' in an ``if'' statement for example)."
"If you like Perl, you will like Ruby and be right at home with its syntax.
"
"But it is worthy of serious study and could be a real threat to Perl."
I haven't played with it yet. Only read about it.
Thanks,
Brian
