From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T00:43:16+09:00
Subject: RE: seeking to understand...


My initial question about Mr Eckel's comments was because,
like Mike, I am a language wimp.  There is not enough time
to go exploring...

The path I have taken was Pascal/C/C++/Forth/Perl/Delphi/ruby
with a bounce off OCaml and Haskell (the latter still intrigues
me).  I never got around to exploring Python and wanted to know
what I am missing.

Given that Life Is Short(tm), and ruby does all that I can
ask of it, I think that Python will remain in the realm of
the Great Unknown.

Thanks to all for their thoughts.

Regards,

-mark.

(BTW, the thought crossed my mind to embed FICL 
[http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ficl.html]
into ruby to get the best of all worlds -- OO, ruby and Forth ;-))


At 09:50 AM 4/3/2002 +0900, you wrote:
>*chuckle*
>
>I guess there are as many sets of likes/dislikes as people.  I don't know 
>enough
>Ruby to say whether I like it or not, but I came from C/Perl/C++/Java, in that
>order, and love them all.
>
>Never did anything with python, but was about to give it a go when I stumbled
>along ruby.
>
>Ok, so I'm a language wh___. =)