From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2006-03-04T05:28:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on the mobile?

In article <1141404252.043413.312290@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com> wrote:
>Berger, Daniel wrote:
>
>> I found this post interesting.  Is Ruby ignoring the  mobile market?  Do
>> we need a "microruby" implementation?
>
>Good point. Personally as a language I like Ruby better than Python and
>Ruby's mindset matches mine better than Python's. But for a project
>where I was trying to port an app to various handheld devices I was
>forced to abandon Ruby in favor of Python so that I had the ability to
>offer the most flexible solution. Python currently has working
>implementations on more small devices platforms so there was no real
>choice between the two.

So why does Python have more working implementations on small device platforms 
than Ruby does?

Phil