From: Costan <CMValma@...>
Date: 2008-07-07T22:26:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby have any advantage over Python to create semantic 	applications?

On Jul 6, 3:41 pm, SHINDO Motoaki <motoak...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi…
>
> On 2008/07/06, at 14:51, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
> > On 06.07.2008 02:02, Costan wrote:
> > Not necessarily: when we talk about "text processing" we usually refer
> > to symbolic transformations on text files
>
> Let me add one thing here;
> I've heard in Ruby library established Lexical Parser(s),
> which could do nothing for Semantics, but
> the latter part must be the pleasure part of Costan-san.
> And the Parser would do trivial things in helping him.
>
> I mean
> Lexical Parser is Off-the-Shelf subroutines or subjects to Costan-san;
> Semantics Parser could be built on top of the Lexical Parser.
>
> for Python, I know nothing. Sorry…
>
> =============================
>    I'm the One of Sad&Mad.
>
>          Shindo  Motoakira
>     <motoak...@mac.com>
> =============================

Hi Shindo-san,

I'm not sure I have understood you correctly but I guess the main
message is that there's built-in lexical parser in Ruby but that I'll
still have to find out how does it work and if this is something that
differentiates Ruby from other programming languages like Python.
Anyway it seems it is kind of hard to have a general comparative
theory of programming languages (research in programming language
theory dates from 2006 AFAIK) and/or that I will need to delve for
some time with any programming language I choose to check the
advantages. The point then is how long should I invest in learning a
language before I decide someone is the appropriate person to take
technical decisions...

Thanks Shindo-san :)

Costan