Perl 6

[prog]

I feel the gentle winds of conventional wisdom buffeting me towards Ruby.

Is there a practical reason why I might want to do this? Coz if I learned it just for S&G but then didn't immediately start using it for serious, I'd forget it.

"Dude, Rails" is not a sufficient reason, unless you can tell me why I'd want to use Rails over any Mason-based solution.

(Referring to Ruby as "Perl 6" is from xach, and the funniest in-joke I've heard all week.)

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[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that Ruby is one step closer to Lisp than Python. Very expressive, clean syntax, but lacks mature libraries and has severe performance penalties. In other words, a great prototyping language and perfect for smaller projects.

I haven't had a chance to sit down and learn it but I looked at the syntax and it seems like an easy one to pick up.