From: Clemens Hintze Date: 2000-01-17T08:16:48+01:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:01152] Re: The value of while... Hi, Conrad Schneiker writes: ... > That is unfortunate. But given that (1) there are far more Perlers than > Pythonees in the world (at least 10 x more AFAIK), and that (2) most Perl > fans/users seem to generally recognize that Perl's OOP features are in the > "OOPs" (English pun) category, I'd be far more concerned with the reactions > of Perlers than with Pythonees. Hmmm! But I think, both could profite from Ruby. Furthermore, coming from both worlds, I do not want to prefer one of them. Both are equal important! And the fact that, whoever, Ruby is dismissed because a misunderstanding/misinterpretation *is* a pity, regardless who misinterprete it! > > Have you had similar (or better or worse) experiences with Perlers than with > Pythonees? Since I plan to submit my revised RFD (request for discussion) > for the formation of a comp.lang.ruby newsgroup later this month (which will > be posted to both comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.python) I am generally > interested in what things have either attracted or repelled previous Perl > users, so that I can make suitable modifications to the RFD, if any. No! The most Perlers was astonishly silent. They tends to be more noisy if discussing Python in theirs group. But after matz' announcement of Ruby there was only some (1-4) posts with contents like: Oh no! Yet another language... :-) > > Conrad > ... -- Clemens Hintze mailto: c.hintze@gmx.net