From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-07-28T00:25:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Next Official Ruby Version

I agree that D is pretty neat.

... beyond that, why would you choose Python over Ruby?  ( Just
asking, not trying to be flamebait or anything )

On 7/27/05, Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> JW> the Arachno IDE, but, why didn't you write it in Ruby? What made you
> JW> choose Haskell?
> 
> It's Eiffel not Haskell. But for most guys its on the same exotic
> languages level.
> 
> A script language is just not powerfull enough for this task (speed,
> memory consumption and yes, speed) to do this.
> 
> For Ruby specific tasks i run simpler ruby scripts. And some parts are
> written in Python but the core must be written in a static typed garbage
> collected native compiled and imperative high level language. And
> there he number of choices was very low in 2001.
> 
> Today i would choose a more cleaner D + Python system.
> 
> Ruby was never an option as it does not support native threads.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Jeff Wood