Apple recognizes Ruby on the Xserve product page

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

I just spotted these two snippets of Ruby recognition on the Apple
Xserve product page (http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/web.html):

1. "...any number of custom applicatons from web development tools such
as PHP, MySQL, JSP or Ruby."

2. "Mac OS X Server now supports Ruby, a simple and powerful
object-oriented programming language along the veins of Perl"

Not bad at all. Well, besides being lumped in with Perl, perhaps


/ David

 

[Daniel Carrera]

2. "Mac OS X Server now supports Ruby, a simple and powerful
object-oriented programming language along the veins of Perl"

Not bad at all. Well, besides being lumped in with Perl, perhaps

Considering that it's a one-sentence introduction for people who might
never have heard of Ruby, I think it's not bad, considenring that a big
part of Ruby's purpose is to be "a better Perl than Perl".

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[Jean-Claude Arbaut]

Well, I'm just a ruby beginner (and perl beginner too), and I know C
fairly well,
but I must say that for me Perl is almost unusable, whereas Ruby is
perfect !
Ok I use Ruby for rather simple tasks... I use Awk very often for text
"formating", and I use Python to embed C routines. I plan to use Ruby
to
replace both. And I insist, for me it's not simply a joke to say perl
is too
complicated. I tried to learn, and I don't think I'm too stupid or too
lazy.
If you remember TECO, you will have a good basis for comparison ;-)