From: Jeff Wood Date: 2005-07-28T01:26:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Next Official Ruby Version Thank you very much for your insight ... I believe that your opinion is dead on for production/shrink-wrap coding. Thank you for having this chat. It's been enlightening. j. On 7/27/05, Lothar Scholz wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > JW> I agree that D is pretty neat. > > JW> ... beyond that, why would you choose Python over Ruby? ( Just > JW> asking, not trying to be flamebait or anything ) > > Ruby is without the nicer and cleaner language, but Python still > has better libraries and implementation (native threads, multiple > separated interpreters and bytecode for source code obfuscation) > > I use Ruby whenever i can, but in some application domains Ruby is > unfortunately still not very useable. > > -- > Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com > Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com > CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's > > > > -- "So long, and thanks for all the fish" Jeff Wood