From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T05:20:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs. Ruby (Re: A concise description of Ruby?)

jgb3@email.byu.edu wrote:
> 
> I, for one, dislike Python for various reasons. However, both Python and 
> Ruby exist, and are both successful, because they fit different people's 
> ways of thinking about the world. Ruby fits my way of thinking. Python 
> doesn't. For a Python fan, it is doubtless the other way around.
> 
> I don't think there is anything wrong with that. I don't think Ruby is 
> out to displace Python. In fact, I don't think it ever could, just 
> because there are lots of people for whom Python is a better fit than 
> Ruby is. That's not blasphemy, just honest talk. ;)

Well said!

Curt