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.)

Comments

[cnoocy]

Ruby seems fine. But I find it hard to take a language seriously in which "5.days.from_now" is a valid expression.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Technically "5.days.from_now" is an extension in the Rails libraries, rather than core Ruby. I think it expresses what it means quite nicely though.