On Thursday 22 December 2005 11:07 am, Gene Tani wrote:
> Tolga wrote:
> > First of all and very first of all, I must state that I am not
> > an enemy or a spy :-D
>
> I don't have much to add, you can google for 750 k hits for "ruby
> vs python" and read what people have written on c2.com and
> artima.com "your interpreter/VM/lang spec/dev environment is
> strap-on OO, pass by reference, weakly typed, weakly lexically
> scoped, inconsistent API, writing C extensions sucks and it's
> slow"

If you read between the lines in this thread, you notice that only 
Python and Ruby are mentioned in positive light. Nobody stood up 
for Perl, or VB, or Pascal, or C++, or Java. Ruby and Python have 
obviously done something right, well beyond the convenience and 
capabilities of other languages of our time.

I've used Perl since 1997, and fell so in love with Perl that my 
wife hired a private investigator, but since I've found Ruby, Perl 
seems so, well, so 1997. For me, life's too short to use anything 
but Ruby or Python in typical small to moderately sized programs 
that aren't extremely computation heavy (simulation and the like).

SteveT


Steve Litt
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