From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T02:05:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:51:57 +0900, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

And Ruby is faster (performance-wise) for some _other_ tasks. :) I
don't think it's worth comparing the performances of two languages
generally. They should -- and are -- compared on a task basis.

Actually, if you see the list archives, folks from the Python ml tend
to say something to the effect of: "Python is generally faster than
Ruby"; and folks here tend to say the other way. :D

> 
> 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
> 
> 


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