From: Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T09:48:53+09:00
Subject: Re: What is Ruby's biggest strength ?

Ruby's biggest strength is that it is such a good set of designs that 
many of the best people have come to try and work with it, and that 
makes it better again.  If you look at any code in Ruby, it tends to be 
relatively well designed and clean if it's in the public sphere. 
Contrast that to, and I have to admit this is my favorite example, the 
code for Perl's LWP.  Sorry perl programmers, but I used to be a Perl 
programmer, and I had to dig through that thing.  Look then at the code 
for similar tools in Ruby, and they are better designed, easier to read, 
and generally more helpful.

That being said, Perl, Smalltalk, Python are very important ancestors to 
Ruby, and I particularly respect them all for what they were in their time.

xc

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