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by spidaman 5285 days ago
A "ruby vs. perl" fight is the furthest from my mind, I'm just speaking anecdotally about what my friends who, like me, were heavy perl users are using in it's place now. If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark, yes, absolutely, it doesn't make sense.
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If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark...

That and language stability, ecosystem, internal coherence, library availability, release process, compatibility, deployment concerns, tooling....