From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-11T01:04:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:38:50 +0900, James Britt
<jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: Python vs Ruby"
> >     on Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:05:16 +0900, Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > |> The lack of English documentation was the biggest
> > |> (perhaps only) weakness in Ruby.
> > |
> > |Exactly. I don't see any other reason why Ruby didn't take off as well
> > |as Python.
> >
> > I don't think so.  You have more English documents than in Japanese
> > these days.  So that the reason should be "the lack of documentation"
> > at most.  You might know that many among open source developers are
> > not good document writers (including myself).
> 
> Well, I'm inclined to blame "LAMP".
> 
> People are encouraged to use suboptimal tools for a task simply because
> the tool name fits a snappy acronym.
> 
> If matz had only picked a name that began with "P", rather than "R" ...

Heh, once one of my friends called me a LAMeR. :D

> 
> James
> 
> 


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