> I see no value in pushing for ports of a Perl library to other > languages instead of allowing each to grow its own idiomatic one.
That's definitely the way to go, the Easy.pm magic strings look a little like line noise to me ( a non-perler ) and I'm sure the invocations in the cassandra gem look similarly strange to non-rubyists. http://github.com/fauna/cassandra -- Cheers Koz