From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-05-29T00:48:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails interest in comp.lang.python


On May 28, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Robert Mannl wrote:

>
>> Good luck to Subway and all the other copycat projects.
>>
> I'm new to all of this -- is there a mutual hostility between the 
> Python and the Ruby community?
>
>

Hostility is probably too strong a word. "Healthy competition" is 
probably much closer. Python and Ruby are relatively similar languages 
(Python is more like Ruby than, say, Java is) and they're sort of 
jockeying for the same position in the market: Programmers and 
companies who are looking for somewhere else to go now that Perl 
appears to be at a terminal point.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/