Re: Better Perl

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
> --- Jonathan Peterson <JPetersonbmjgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> > My recent playing with Ruby came to griding halt
whan I noticed it
> > STILL 
> > didn't do unicode. Also, if you look at Ruby's
Net::SMTP and Perl's 
> > Net::SMTP Perl's is just so much nicer - better
documentation, better
> 
> > designed, does more stuff. It really shows what an
extra decade of 
> > maturity means.
> 
> Agreed.  With people finally coming down off Rails,
they're starting to
> notice the cracks in the Ruby community (not the
language).  DSLs which
> aren't and the prevalence of altering core class
behavior
> ("monkeypatching") is a sure sign of a
community feeling growing pains.

I'm just waiting for people to notice just how limited the
object system
is. Single inheritance and a clumsy mixin system just don't
cut it for me.

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