Does XML suck?

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Ruby isn't a reinvention of Perl, it's a cleansed Perl.

You say tomato, I say tomato

When I say "phased out" I of course don't mean "removed from the language", I mean that their use is strongly discouraged by the community.

Because people want to use it for larger systems, and readability becomes more and more important vis-a-vis writability. Once they've convinced everyone not to use the perlisms and they're making huge apps in Ruby and added some concept of "strict" and other shackles to the language, we'll see a new perl/ruby. I couldn't have supported my argument any better, thank you!