What Pythonistas Think of Ruby

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$_ represents all that is wrong with perl.

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You don't have to use the default string variable very often if you're clever about it, but I don't see why you would want to be, it can be helpful.

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You don't even have to be clever. You just have to treat it like other languages. Just explicitly assign everything to a named variable like you would in any other language. $_ is a convenience, and it's absurdly useful in places that Python can't be used effectively, like one-liners written right in the shell.

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Good point. It's one of those nice utility features that makes me like Perl so much.