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Why I Love Ruby

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

If you’re looking for a comprehensive comparison of 15 programming languages based on decades of experience, this isn’t it. I’m a hobbiest programmer. Most of my “programs” are either in bash or Python, fit on one page, and are based ... Continue reading »

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  • Brad Wolfe

    2 years ago

    I actually have a different opinion of Ruby than a lot of Perl people that I know. I love it. That's right, I love some Ruby. One of our newer programmers uses it because it is less syntactically intimidating than Perl, but basically just as powerful. There are things that I strongly prefer Perl to Ruby for (RegEx primarily), but there are things that I do prefer Ruby for (I love the syntax to handle DB connections, for example). Overall, I just prefer Perl to Ruby, but I would say that both are really good at what they do. My preference for Perl is primarily based on familiarity and ease of use for what I do.
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  • Jon Robinson

    2 years ago

    Nice. Seems real simple. Can you explain what all that jazz is about containers and what type of environment you need to use Ruby?
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