From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-02-21T03:40:21+09:00
Subject: Re: FAQ comp.lang.ruby; correction, Ruby vs Python 2.2

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Phil Tomson wrote:

> You're right that it doesn't really fit in that part of the FAQ.  What
> about a "How does Ruby compare with other Languages?" question for the FAQ
> - it is a valid question.

This is something that would be difficult to keep up to date. How much
of the valid question would be answered by aswering something like:

"With Perl, Python, Tcl, [...] already available, why was Ruby created
in the first place?"

and a "What's new in version x.y.*?" to keep things up to date?
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> Phil
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        Hugh
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