From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T20:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Hello Brian,

BC> BTW, has anybody written a summary page comparing the features of Ruby to
BC> languages like OCaml, Haskell, Eiffel, Smalltalk? (Explanations in terms of
BC> doing X in Ruby versus X in those languages would be useful). Googling turns
BC> up a lot of interesting-looking but broken links :-(

I doubt that a simple X vs. Y feature will help you in any way.

All of them have concepts, implementations and ideas behind them that
you only can find by looking at the language in detail and trying it
out on at least a non trivial example.

Tabular comparisons are IMHO even worse then just a waste of time.
They make you think that all languages are (almost) the same.


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