alt Hacker News> If you know Ruby, there is essentially zero reason to learn Perl
When I still used Perl (10y ago) Ruby was notably slower on many tasks. Ruby probably the slowest among popular script languages.
> If you know Ruby, there is essentially zero reason to learn Perl
When I still used Perl (10y ago) Ruby was notably slower on many tasks. Ruby probably the slowest among popular script languages.
Bordering on zero percent of projects too performance sensitive to be written in Ruby should be written in Perl instead.