From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2001-08-12T13:52:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19572] Re: /.ed again

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:44:08PM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <200108120000.f7C00aZ20937@sii.linuxsweden.nu>,
> Joel Wilsson  <siigron@sii.linuxsweden.nu> wrote:
> >Interesting (and pleasing) to see that the comments
> >this time aren't all "we don't need Ruby, we already
> >have Python", but instead "wow, looks cool".
> >
> 
> I'm not sure if we're looking at the same comments - or maybe it's just 
> that I'm  looking a few hours later.  Most comments seem to be running in 
> the "We don't need no more stink'in languages" vein.

The best comment was about "Ruby being a hacked language like Perl, while
Phyton is soooooo elegant" ;-))))))))))))

I thing alot of people on slashdot tend to post before they actually read
anything about the topic..

greetings, Florian Pflug
PS: 
To prevent another flame war: I have nothing against Perl/Phyton, and
believe them both to be powerfull lanugages, it's just that I _personally_
like Ruby more.