Lager'd Statistics on language migration

[Andrew Dalke]

Alex:
> Can you point out some specific behavior, some language-design choice, 
> where Ruby is farther away from Perl than Python is?

Everything is derived from a base object type in Ruby.
Defintely not in Perl, while in Python things are moving
more and more that way.

Ruby started off (from what I can tell) with automatic
widening of platform ints into bignums.  Python more
recently did that, while Perl doesn't.


				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com