tony summerfelt wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:22:35 +0900, you wrote:
>
> >Boy, do you hate Python or what! I haven't seen Ruby users so
critical
> >about Python.
>
> ruby has what python IMHO will never have. a friendly community.
> tcl/tk has it also...perl and python seem to be in the same camp when
> it comes to it's users...
>
> a few years ago i asked a question in the python newsgroup. i was
> trying to port some perl code to python (which i was in the process
of
> learning)
>
> it was immediatly tagged as a troll and the vitriol of the responses
i
> got was shocking. rudest bunch of people i've ever met online.
>
> you can still google the responses to me:
> (http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/14039)
>
> it was in the ruby newsgroup, but written by a python person...i'm
> sure a ruby programmer would never have replied like that :)
>
> i've found that python people DO have an attitude. they don't like to
> hear anything negative about their language of choice (even if it
> happens to be factually true).

It seems that the ruby's community is not so friendly anymore:

I still consider myself as a part of the python community.
And you lumping me together with these people
(http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/14039) is
very offending.

I think it is really as simple as large community => many morons.


> 'there's only ONE way to do it'

No! The correct statement is:

'There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.'

the _obvious_ is very important here.

The idea behind this really makes a lot of sense (although I currently
prefer the ruby way). I tried to explain that here:

http://onthethought.blogspot.com/2005/01/thinking-in-ruby-not.html#comments