From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-05-12T05:10:06-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02784] Re: Ruby vs. The Others

Hi,

Greg McCarroll <gem@news.cis.dfn.de> wrote in message
> Ok, i'm probably not that welcome here being an out and out Perl
> devotee, however in the spirit of usenet i'll wade in with my comments
> anyway.

Well, Perl still helps feed me, so I still have some appreciation for it. It
was my search for ways to improve Perl that led me to Ruby.

> I'm interested in trying to place ruby in terms of performance against
> Perl, Python and TCL, what do the Ruby people feel that Ruby's main
> area of performance is? or are you guys simply trying to enforce good
> programming practices first and foremost.
>
> What is the motivation for Ruby? why another scripting language?

I'll see if someone on the ruby-talk ML would like to respond to this.

(Note: to those of you who are reading this on ruby-talk ML, please be sure
that you also reply to comp.lang.ruby.)

Conrad