Peter Szinek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> The Ruby community really needs to calm down about this language 
>> superiority thing. I'm new to Ruby, and I've been hanging out on this 
>> list for the past month or two. I'm not sure if you guys realize how 
>> many of your emails are anti-some-language or comparing Ruby's 
>> popularity to the others. It's really a turn-off. It's like an 
>> insecure woman looking in the mirror asking you if she looks OK. "Of 
>> course!," you say. "You're beautiful!" And then she asks you again and 
>> again...
> 
> Though I am trying to avoid (language) flame wars or anything related to 
> them, I really have to disagree here. The above paragraph holds for the 
> right-wing activists of the Rails party, but definitely not for Ruby in 
> general. Most of the people here are coming from Java, C#, PHP and other 
> languages, not necessarily leaving those behind. I have seen some 
> serious Java (as well as other language, or language-agnostic) questions 
> answered here without bashing or pointing out how X sucks.


This list has a permathread of "python v. ruby", and for the most part 
people  are simply told to try both and see what makes you most happy.

That's not to say there aren't some people who prefer to attempt nasty 
smack-downs, but they are in the minority.

You can't just count the number of ranting pro-ruby posts; you also have 
to see if they aren't all coming from the same 2 or 3 people.


MINASWAN


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