From: james@... Date: 2002-04-03T02:30:28+09:00 Subject: RE: seeking to understand... > > Dear All, > > [Please note that I don't want to start a flame-fest, rather to > seek to understand. I seek to cause no offence in sending this > post and humbly apologise if it does.] > > I recently found the following article at Bruce Eckel's site: > > http://www.mindview.net/Etc/FAQ.html#Ruby > > In it, he says -- If you search the ruby-talk archives, you'll find previous discussion about Mr. Eckel's comments. By and large, folks here refrained from flaming Eckel and/or Python, and there were interesting comments explaining why people prefer Ruby over [Python|Perl|Java|COBOL]. Archives: http://ruby-talk.com/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml James