From: Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T06:03:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23091] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

--- Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> wrote:
> > > Java. I would not, however, relish attempting to
> manage 100K+ lines of
> > > Ruby code for a project, while Python proved to be
> quite usable for 100K+
> > > lines of code.
> >
> > I'd hold against your last sentence, but I never tried
> it out.
> > But maybe 100K lines in Python are just 50K in Ruby ;-)
> 
> Destructors are just another one of those features of
> Python which are oriented towards making 100K+ line 
> programs with multiple programmers managable in Python. 

Shhhhh. Don't tell the Java programmers that destructors
are needed for big apps! [Ok, I'm a Java programmer, too]

Seriously, I haven't tried a really big app in Python or
Ruby, but based on what I've done so far in Ruby I would
have no qualms about trying one. 

I use Ruby as an app language, not as a scripting language.
I suspect a large Ruby app would be less troublesome than a
large Java app. 

Modules and full-on use of classes are great tools for
modularity. Global? What's a global?

I think the choice between Python and Ruby is largely a
matter of which syntax feels more comfortable to you. 

The comparison of available libraries is like comparing
Python a couple years ago against Perl. Python continues to
grow, and Ruby will grow as well, closing that gap over
time. (Of course, both have a ways to go to approach Perl).

Kevin


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