From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T04:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Python, questions (not a flamewar!)

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On 1/18/07, Mark Haliday <markhaliday@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Drew Olson wrote:
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> <snip>
> Both Python and Ruby are great languages and both are going to keep
> moving forward.  The only one I see in troubled waters is Perl.


Completely agree

I think
> they've kinda hurt themselves by betting the farm so to speak on Perl 6
> which has yet to materialize in a fully working form.


Yes they obviously have, but did they have a choice? Just  putting up at
level with  Python (Ruby was probably not an issue at those days) was not
good enough.
But I guess something went wrong, maybe the critical mass  was  reached.
Larry always said Perl5 was his rewrite of Perl, Perl6 will be the
communities rewrite maybe they lack leadership, I dunno.

I think it is a most important lesson to learn. Ruby2 will still be Matz'
Ruby so there will be leadership.
The speed factor might be a problem for Ruby2 too, but again the delta is
much smaller than between Perl6/5.
So we will be fine I guess?

Cheers
Robert

 Many people gave
> up waiting and moved to Ruby or Python instead.
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


-- 
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay

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