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Perl:

while(<>){

  ...

}

Ruby:

ARGF.each do |$_|

  ...

end

At this point I question whether I'd ever use Perl for anything again. Until now, Perl filled a niche where if the code I wanted to write would fit in 10 lines or so, and did a lot of string manipulation, I'd turn to Perl. Otherwise Python. Now I think I'll just use Ruby for everything

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10:23 (utc-5)
edited: 10:59 (utc-5)

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I moved to Python from Perl. I never really left Perl, because Python is too ... clean. Text munging is dirty stuff. So you need Perl. Plus, I like Perl's philosophy ... and then I met Ruby. I do all my scripting in Ruby. I still do Perl, because ... well, it will be there. Ain't no Unix without it. But when I manage to find Ruby, I use Ruby only. So ... that leaves Py cold.

Actually, I use:

STDIN.each {|x| ...}

Which is more like the diamond operator, because the diamond can take a handle (as in,

<FILEHANDLE>

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