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Moin,
On Friday 28 July 2006 08:44, Chad Perrin wrote: [snipauiteabit]
Perl really strikes me as the clear winner, overall, with Ruby a close second about a hair's-breadth behind it.
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I don't know much about Ruby, except that I heard Unicode support is really lacking. Which pretty much rules it out for anything serious text processing in this age :-D
However, the entire Ruby project always stuck me as a me-too-lets-reinvent-the-wheel-and-this-time-make-it-rounder project, like so many others (*cough*Perl6*cough).
Yes, Perl5 has some problems, like carrying baggage from a decade or two that nobody really needs anymore, but I am not sure that yet-another-interpreted-language (that is only 60..90% complete, undertested etc) is the real answer. It just fragments the coder base even more.
We have way too many programming languages already.
Best wishes,
Tels
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