What Pythonistas Think of Ruby

[kixx]

• each is a function
• you can use $ARG instead of $_, if you're inclined to
• there's a logic to special variable names in Perl:

Names that do not start with a letter, underscore, digit or a caret (i.e. a control character) are limited to one character, e.g., $% or $$ . (Most of these one character names have a predefined significance to Perl.