From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T01:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

cyberco wrote:
> Bruce Eckel (author of amongst other popular books 'Thinking in Java')
> has doubts why anybody would switch from Python to Ruby. An
> interesting read:
> 
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=141312

Thanks for the interesting read!

> To quote him:
> 
> "The person I want to hear from is the core Python expert, someone who
> knows that language incredibly well, who has decided that Ruby is just
> so much better that all the mature Python libraries and community
> expertise doesn't hold a candle to the value of moving to Ruby. That
> person would be able to make a compelling, feature-by-feature
> argument" 
> 
> Any Python experts here? :)

They probably forgot all their Python once they started with Ruby... ;-)

    robert