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Red Apples vs Green Apples (Score:2)

by djberg96 (2603)

Hey, never let facts get in the way of a little hyperbole. ;)
Perl has had a canonical test suite in the core repository and shipped those tests with every source distribution since 1987. As of at least Ruby 1.8.7 (May 2008), this was not true of Ruby.
I wouldn't equate a core development team with that language's community. The Perl core team certainly was and is fanatical about testing, but the community? I think they caught up much later. In the case of Ruby we have the opposite situation - the community
- Re:Red Apples vs Green Apples (Score:1)
  
  by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2009.02.16 20:51 (#67424) Homepage Journal
  
  IMHO most language communities these days are pretty good about testing.
  
  How good? 200,000 fully automated test reports per month [cpantesters.org] good?
  
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