http://danielrm26.disqus.com/dmiessler.com/about/enSat, 31 Mar 2007 03:02:07 -0000http://dmiessler.com/blog/why-i-love-ruby#comment-4353596<p>Nice. Seems real simple. Can you explain what all that jazz is about containers and what type of environment you need to use Ruby?</p>Jon RobinsonSat, 31 Mar 2007 03:02:07 -0000http://dmiessler.com/blog/why-i-love-ruby#comment-4353595<p>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.</p>Brad WolfeTue, 20 Mar 2007 04:54:49 -0000