Ruby was conceived by a man who worked a lot in Perl and Unix. This is...
Ruby was conceived by a man who worked a lot in Perl and Unix. This is very much transparent from the language itself. If you are a Unix professional you will know at least half of of these names/symbols by heart:` `, $?, STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ${}, ARGV, $$ ... # shell-isms%Q, %q, %x, -e, -F, -wnlp, / /, $VAR, @VAR...
