From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T23:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 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.

Well, few people have the time to do this properly, so some sort of 'E-Z 
Kwik Chart' can be helpful.  But I agree with your general point; often 
it is hard or impossible to find the 'same thing' across multiple 
language because of conceptual and design differences.

The discussion here on static methods in Java was a good example.

James


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