From: Henning von Rosen Date: 2001-12-30T06:52:37+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29655] Re: Python and Ruby: a comparison > Ruby.next and > Python 3000. Pyby :-)!! [Conrad]> So my question is: at such a presently entirely hypothetical future > juncture, is there any practical and desirable middle ground for a common > single successor language to the current generations of Python and Ruby? then again, variation+modification==evolution... I think the both share one trait: human-friendlyness; extremely important and not so easily defined. I think Ruby and Python is about the same thing: making progamming more fun (fun as in effective&enjoyable&lessErrorprone not by limitation bur by empowerment) for humans, which is not a bad thing. and there are more languages to be inspired by than Python/Ruby. (think FP) /h