From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-06-23T09:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: > Ruby is the #1 most popular language on GitHub.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:21:37 +0900, Brian Candler wrote:

> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> I find Javascript a rather beautiful language, its prototypes and open
>> objects are similar to Ruby and its singleton classes in power. It's
>> the DOM that makes Javascript ugly.
> 
> I agree. You can even extend core classes in Javascript as per Ruby (*).
> There is a book "Javascript: The Good Parts" which expands on the clean
> and elegant aspects of Javascript.
> 
> As for Ruby being top on github: that just demonstrates that the Ruby
> community makes a lot of use of github, possibly because github itself
> is written in Ruby. Maybe python users have their own preferred ways of
> sharing code?

Many Python users may prefer bzr or mercurial as their VCS, since both 
are written in Python.

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/