From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-06T14:51:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby have any advantage over Python to create semantic    applications?

On 06.07.2008 02:02, Costan wrote:

> I found the text that made me think of Ruby as having some advantages
> for semantic processing: " I will probably still fall back on Ruby for
> text-processing scripts as its always been stellar for those kinds of
> tasks" (in http://blog.cbcg.net/articles/2007/04/22/python-up-ruby-down-if-that-runtime-dont-work-then-its-bound-to-drizzown).
> But reading your answers it seems there's no real advantage for this
> particular purpose so that guy must be wrong...

Not necessarily: when we talk about "text processing" we usually refer 
to symbolic transformations on text files which are quite a different 
thing than what you seem to be after.  From what I read you really want 
to recognize semantic of speech.  This is nothing we regularly do when 
text processing.  Instead we typically search for text, extract certain 
portions of text based on position and regular expression match but not 
on semantic.

> In any case, if there is something I'm finding clearly attractive
> about Ruby is the honesty and friendly support and of its community.

That's really a big plus IMHO.  To add another bit of honest advice: 
without background in programming or even computer science you will have 
a hard time implementing this in *any* programming language.

Kind regards

	robert