Perl/CPAN v. Ruby ?

[Stephen Collyer]

David Dorward wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:23:01AM +0000, Stephen Collyer wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know of any web-accessible comparisons of (or
>>have any personal experience of) development in Ruby and Perl.
>>I'm particularly interested in how far a Perl person would get
>>in Ruby before starting to pine for CPAN.
> 
> 
> About this |--| far based on my experience :) 

My ascii art skills must be waning - I guess |--|
translates as not very far ?

Care to expand on your experience here ? What problems
did you run into, specifically ?

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Regards

Stephen Collyer
Netspinner Ltd