From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T23:12:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:52:59 +0900, tony summerfelt
<snowzone5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:45:45 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> >Check this out:
> 
> >http://onthethought.blogspot.com/2005/01/thinking-in-ruby-not.html
> 
> i've found that when someone becomes a 'python person'  they
> absolutely REFUSE to consider another language.

With all due respect, I'd disagree here. I have been a long time
Python user; I have talked about Python at conferences and stuff. Now
I educate folks about Ruby. And I _still_ use Python.

I have started liking Ruby a lot, yes. However, I must add that it
_is_ difficult for a Python user to even get motivated to learn a new
language. Had I discovered Ruby earlier, it would have been extremely
difficuly for me to think of Python.

> 
> personally i'm of the mind of 'right tool for the job'. and for me
> python doesn't seem to be the right tool for anything.
> 
> somebody with mr. eckel's smarts should know better...can you imagine
> what he could do with 'thinking in ruby'
> 
> in that blog he's guilty of the same thing he accuses ruby of:
> 
> 'Of course I only get bits and pieces, usually from people who don't
> know Python trying to convince me that Ruby is better,'
> 
> and rubyist's  get it the other way around :)
> 
> the main argument that python programmers use to use is that  python
> is OO from the ground up. clearly it's not, but ruby is...and i think
> that sticks in their craw more than then they'd like to admit...
> 
> rather than get bombarded by moronic hatemail (as happened last time
> when i point all this out)  i'm leaving it at that...
> 
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1
> telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org
> 
> 


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