Ruby is easier for Perl people to get into than Haskell. By the same token, learning Ruby will expand your horizons less than Haskell.
Which is preferable depends on your point of view. Cheers, Ben On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:49:59 -0500, Benjamin Kram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just grabbed binary of Haskell. I'm thinking of poking around with that as > well, and Ruby... > > b > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:40:35PM -0500, Kenneth A Graves wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:32, Aaron Sherman wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 12:51, Benjamin Kram wrote: > > > > Has anyone had a chance to play with pugs? > > > > I just svned down a copy and was going to toy with it a bit. > > > > > > Only a little bit. I am, however, sure that the correct way to boost the > > > popularity of your favorite niche language is to write a compiler / > > > interpreter in it for a popular language. Pugs will certainly boost > > > Haskell in this way ;-) > > > > I haven't gotten around to playing with Pugs yet, but I did build > > Haskell this weekend. It's a functional-programming conspiracy. > > > > --kag > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Boston-pm mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > -- > "it would be horrid to be robbed > by the wrong kind of people" > -archy > Don Marquis, "the big bad wolf", 1935 > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
