Ask HN: Why do people consider Ruby better than Perl or vice versa?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 3:23 PM UTC

colomon wrote: post #30

chromatic wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A modern Perl programmer might write something much more elegant: my $x = 'Apple Carrot Banana'; my @y = $x->split(' ')->sort; if (@y > 2) { say "we've got ${\@y->size} elements!"; } else { say "insufficient elements. fail."; }

Or ever-so-slightly lighter Perl 6 version: my $x = 'Apple Carrot Banana'; my @y = $x.words.sort; if @y > 2 { say "we've got {@y.elems} elements!"; } else { say "insufficient elements. fail."; }