From: David.Stagner@... Date: 2002-09-20T00:19:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Python the new Lisp, what about Ruby then? This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 0054155086256C39_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ruby is the new Perl. :} Actually, i had an interesting thought about that this morning... i filled out the Ruby programmer's survey (from the link in the FAQ), and it asked what i like about Ruby. What do i like about it? It's postmodern. See Larry Wall's speech on Perl as the first postmodern programming language, . Ruby is the second postmodern language, cheerfully looting the best ideas from countless successful predecessors, and putting the decisions about the "right" way to do things back in the hands of programmers, where it belongs imho. Python, like Lisp, is minimalist and reductionist. It has One True Way to do things. Ruby, like Perl, has many ways to do things. At the very least, remembering and re-reading this speech helped me figure out why i chose Ruby over Python and Perl for a new project. --=_alternative 0054155086256C39_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Ruby is the new Perl. :}

Actually, i had an interesting thought about that this morning... i filled out the Ruby programmer's survey (from the link in the FAQ), and it asked what i like about Ruby.  What do i like about it?  It's postmodern.  See Larry Wall's speech on Perl as the first postmodern programming language, <http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html>.  Ruby is the second postmodern language, cheerfully looting the best ideas from countless successful predecessors, and putting the decisions about the "right" way to do things back in the hands of programmers, where it belongs imho.  Python, like Lisp, is minimalist and reductionist.  It has One True Way to do things.  Ruby, like Perl, has many ways to do things.  

At the very least, remembering and re-reading this speech helped me figure out why i chose Ruby over Python and Perl for a new project. --=_alternative 0054155086256C39_=--