From: Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T15:56:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23143] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:20:07AM +0900, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> Ruby, on the other hand, is a much better scripting language (as vs. 
> general-purpose programming language) than Python. It is much easier to chain 
> pieces together, especially for distributed applications.

I would second this. I once took a quick look and tried Python (1.5) for
some small scripts. I found its syntax to be too C-ish for me, although i
liked the intendation idea.
I had the impression, that Python was like an interpreted C.
(I used no OO for these small scripts these days)

Ruby is more of the 'o.k. let's hack together a solution fast'-language and
i like the yield construction. Thus in my opinion Ruby feels more scriptish
than Python.

These are only opinions from a Ruby beginner though.

Regards
Martin.

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