[framework] Why the framework uses ruby instead of perl?

[zhangyudong]

Thanks.

mallory

 mmiller at hick.org wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:21:58AM +0800, zhangyudong wrote:
>   
>> I think perl is enough for this job, what is the reason that make the 
>> devel team to use ruby to rewrite the entire program?
>>     
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> 1. We like Ruby.  Ruby is fun.
> 2. Ruby has a powerful OO model, whereas Perl has a-lot-to-be-desired OO
>    model.
> 3. Ruby, in theory, has a native win32 interpreter that we can use some
>    day.
>
> There are lots of other reasons, but for that I'll point you at the
> developer's guide where we have tried to answer this question:
>
> http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/msf3/developers_guide.pdf
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