From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <i_hate_spam@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T03:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious danger of being impressed


"Mark Carter" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message 
news:466c1597$0$27859$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
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> I think Ruby is a serious serious contender for python.

    As a language, Ruby has always been "a serious contender" for Python. 
Personally, I like it a lot more than Python.
    The main advantage of Python over Ruby is a larger library and (more 
importantly, since there is a rich library for Ruby) a much more mature 
implementation.  Sadly, Python is, really, just as powerful a language as 
Ruby, so this gives people every reason to use Python over Ruby, so it would 
help Ruby to work on these things...
    What is the state of Ruby development, does anyone know?  The impression 
that I get is that it's slow and diluted across multiple, parallel 
efforts...