From: Paul Prescod Date: 2001-08-12T15:57:22+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:19578] Re: /.ed again Al Chou wrote: > > --- Joel Wilsson 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". > > And this despite the fact that that developerWorks article is just about the > poorest representation of Ruby I have seen. The reason that this slashdot thread is friendlier than the other is pretty simple. The other was phrased as: "Why aren't you using Ruby." Given that question, people will answer with reasons they don't want to move to Ruby. > ... I'm not saying it's _bad_ in an > absolute sense, but reading it reminded me of every other quick language > tutorial I've ever read. .... It is just the first of four... -- Take a recipe. Leave a recipe. Python Cookbook! http://www.ActiveState.com/pythoncookbook