From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T01:51:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:11:24 +0900, Lethalman <lethalman@fyrebird.net> wrote:
> (sorry for my poor English)
> Hello,
> i'm a pythonist but i like very much some ruby features, however it
> doesn't seem to be very supported at all like Python.
> I never programmed in ruby, because i python is more used.
> 
> I would like to know why ruby doesn't "take the fly" like Python did,
> because i really would like to try the ruby language!

Besides what the other guys have already said that I agree with, I
think Python has had better support on Windows and they have an
integrated IDE which supports auto-completion. On Windows, many times,
people try out Cygwin out of despair. :-) Another point is that Python
seems faster (performance-wise) for some tasks.

So, I don't blame the Pythonists for choosing the wrong language...
:-) They are partially right, at least. We have a better language,
some very nice libraries and a great community.

Cheers,
Joao