From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T13:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> I don't know about other Python web app frameworks, but I don't think
> it's fair to classify Django as a "Rails clone" or "copycat". Django and
> Rails were developed independently more or less at the same time. And
> they were both abstracted from different web apps. As a consequence,
> there are some things that Django does well and Rails does poorly, and
> vice versa.

I didn't know that. I'm not a Python guy.

> 
> I'm not at all sure the concepts of "expressive" or "dynamic" are the
> real reasons Ruby programmers prefer Ruby to other languages. I think
> its more that Ruby was a true object-oriented *programming language*
> from birth, rather than having objects grafted on to what was
> essentially a glorified UNIX shell with lots of C libraries. Early Perl
> scripts, for example, looked a lot like cleaned-up C shell or Korn shell
> scripts that used "grep", "sed", "awk", etc. to do the work.
> 

Granted, the OO is a big part of it. The "expressiveness" of Ruby is
probably not separable from its OO, though the dynamism is.


Hal