[ale] Servlets Vs. Perl

[Mike Lockhart]

I've actually been quite impressed with the performance of Ruby.  I've
used it several times in the past year for some fairly heavy db
maintenence scripts and network utils, ported over from perl (nothing
against Perl, just wanted to try somthing different).  Granted it would
be nice if there was a good, quality complier for it, but as a scripted
language it's nice.  And it's 110% OO, thats probably the coolest thing
about it, since ANYTHING can be an object.  

Check out http://www.ruby-lang.org if anyones interested in it.  

-- mike


On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:33, cfowler wrote:
> Speaking of Python, What is up with Ruby.
> 
> The last thing we need is another OO slow scripting language. 
> 
> Let the flames begin!
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:26, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, John Wells wrote:
> > 
> > > >     Mike> 3) I find the object oriented nature of Java to better lend
> > > > Mike> itself to code organization and code reuse, so I end up
> > > >     Mike> being more efficient.
> > > >
> > > >         Get Damian Conway's _Object Oriented Perl_.
> > > 
> > > Not to start a holy war here, but perl has some of the ugliest OO syntax
> > > I've seen.  Java OOP results in cleaner code, for the most part.  Perl OOP
> > > always feels like it's held together with a bunch of scotch tape.
> > 
> > Isn't this why Python is always the right answer :) So much for Holy Wars
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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