From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-27T14:11:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26615] Re: Ruby vs. Python: Decisions, Decisions

And now, if someone searches Ruby on Google groups for, you know, *those words*,
they'll be *lots* of responses, just confirming their worst suspicions.

:)


James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Feldt [mailto:feldt@ce.chalmers.se]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:16 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:26611] Re: Ruby vs. Python: Decisions, Decisions
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Bob Calco wrote:
> 
> > # >     >> Python sucks.
> > #
> > # > Just wait.  If Ruby becomes popular, the community will go downhill.
> > # > c.l.python was great a few years ago.
> > #
> > # Not the community, the language. Python contains miserable technical
> > # decisions committed early, and patches added on in later versions
> > # (such as
> > # "lambda").
> > #
> >
> I think the sad thing with such, IMHO, "language bashing" is that
> somewhere in a Python forum someone will say that "on ruby-talk they think
> Python sucks" and then the ball might start rolling.
> 
> But now I'm "ruby-talk posting bashing" so who am I!? ;-)
> 
> /Robert
> 
>