[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:04085] Re: What are you using Ruby for?

From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2000-07-17 15:54:23 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4085
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Robert Feldt wrote:

> I guess most of the benefits are not Ruby-specific as opposed to Perl
> or Python and you could argue that for example Python would give me
> additional benefits (for example it can be compiled to native code). I
> guess the elegance of Ruby (b1 above. I've previously used some
> functional languages), the fact that I didn't know either of the languages
> very well and my belief that most of Python's advantages over Ruby will
> probably be overcome since Ruby is currently earlier in its 
> development/evolution.
> 
I didn't finish the final sentence above. It should be finished:
...was the things that made me go for Ruby.

/Robert


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