Re: [C&C] Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

[Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:05:17AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> David J Iannucci writes:
> 
>  > Much as I love Perl, I must admit that the concise beauty of the way
>  > Ruby applies the string transformation without the side-effect takes
>  > the cake :-)
> 
> Hm?  Perl uses the editable buffer model, Ruby has immutable strings,
> Emacs provides both.  Dif'rent strokes.

I think you're confusing Ruby and Python there.  Ruby's strings are as
editable as you like.

(Symbols are immutable, but it would make no sense for them to be
anything else.)

--Dave