I agree - As a Perl5 fan, I'm sad to say that Ruby is looking like the "real" Perl6.
Matz has done a terrific job making Ruby a powerful and practical language. Lets hope the Perl community lends support, and creates a CPAN equivalent for Ruby.
Surely what we want in a browser is the ability to extract the really juicy bits out of our favorite web pages and format them intelligently. I don't care much for banner ads or framesets - just give me the meat!
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I agree - As a Perl5 fan, I'm sad to say that Ruby is looking like the "real" Perl6.
Matz has done a terrific job making Ruby a powerful and practical language. Lets hope the Perl community lends support, and creates a CPAN equivalent for Ruby.
Surely what we want in a browser is the ability to extract the really juicy bits out of our favorite web pages and format them intelligently. I don't care much for banner ads or framesets - just give me the meat!