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Old 25th May 2008
matt matt is offline
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Default Ruby vs Perl

I started learning Ruby about a month ago and I like it a lot more than Perl. The syntax is a lot cleaner and easier to work with. Take functions, for example. You can just say:
Code:
def fn(param1, param2, param3)
  ...
end
instead of:
Code:
sub fn {
  my ($param1, $param2, $param3) = @_;
  ...
}
That just seems so much harder than it needs to be. I practically have to break out the book every time I want to declare a function in Perl. I like Ruby a lot better. I think the design of it is just really good.
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