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Re:Why Perl? by prophetjohn on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:45PM (#3239187)
Ruby even uses some predefined globals (eg $_) that are pretty much straight out of Perl.

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_predefined_variables...

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Re:Why Perl? by jamesbritt on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:19PM (#3239367)
Ruby even uses some predefined globals (eg $_) that are pretty much straight out of Perl.

They exist, and while I'm a fan of $: over $LOAD_PATH I don't think I've even seen $_ used in the wild.

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Re:Why Perl? by prophetjohn on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:28PM (#3239408)
I don't really have the perspective to comment on how common they are, but they do exist. Ruby is full of little things like this, which one of the things I simultaneously love and hate about Ruby
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