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September 12, 2001

Programming in the Ruby language (part 1 of 4). Ruby is apparently a popular object-oriented Perl-like programming language. When there were rumors that Perl and Python were merging, I think this is kind of what they had in mind. With Python 2, Perl 6, a possible C++ version 2, I no longer have a good idea of what the future of practical programming will be like. I'm excited at the possibilities, but I'm also a little nervous, because I don't know what to study.

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Dan Sanderson, September 11, 2001 12:32 AM:

It's worth mentioning that the source of the Perl-Python merge rumor was a Slashdot April Fool's Joke. A mean one, if you ask me.

wel, September 17, 2001 6:46 AM:

well well

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