From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T08:39:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Reasons to consider learning Ruby?

On Jan 22, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Preston Crawford wrote:
> Of course. I've Googled this topic thoroughly. And (as mentioned in my
> other response) the conclusions reached are generally the same. So the
> tie-breaker from me, aside from how enjoyable a language is to use, is
> what the future of the language holds. Thus my last paragraph. I'm
> interested in learning a langauge where there's at least some potential
> that down the road I might be able to use this do the same kind of work
> that is done on the Microsoft side of the world with VB. i.e. Quick RAD
> using a good quality language with hooks into a decent GUI toolkit. 
> This
> is the part I don't know as much about Ruby or Python. Other than I'm
> aware that Python has pyQT, etc. But I have leanings towards Ruby, 
> just in
> terms of syntax and the way the language is constructed. That's why I
> asked here.

ruby has qtruby. if you have time. compare the sources.
you'll understand afterwards why you should choose ruby :)
clever people gather around ruby for some reason, i'm yet
to understand why this is. i guess its something about ruby :)

Alex