From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T03:26:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby For Hackers

> or no and learn other language, example: Python, Perl or Java?

Only you can answer that question.

I think Perl though is inferior to both python and ruby mostly because 
of one problem - readability. PHP has a similar problem but it is much 
easier to understand than perl and at least tried to go to great lengths 
to ensure that the basic functionality stays simple. Ruby is how perl 
should have been many years
ago (with one exception maybe being "speedy text manipulation" years 
ago... but if old C hackers want to continue using perl *shrug* the 
world wont stand still anyway).

Java is inferior as well ;-) but the bigger question is, why you put 
Java even inside that list? It does not make much sense for me, 
"scripting languages" vs something huge like java. It feels like 
comparing apples (ruby) to nitrogen-fertilizers on a farm crop (java), 
which eventually leads to other, and possibly bigger, problems (flow 
into sea or ocean).
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