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by tomc1985 2870 days ago
but the ruby code is much more intuitively readable
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It is if you know ruby. Me, I know perl and honestly I do not grok most of the ruby examples given here. I am quite sure that I could learn them about as fast as somebody not knowing perl and knowing ruby could learn perl.
I know both languages; the ruby version is better IMO. The verbiage is English... the syntax is a bit odd but so is the perl version's