From: Gabriel Lima Date: 2000-10-10T15:10:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:5367] Re: Is Ruby "enough better"? Hello there. > I can't see how others will be able to make your decision easier, > though. In the end, you may need to invest the hour or so it takes to > get familiar with the language and decide for yourself. I really didn't want for others to make the decision for me at all. I just wanted to grasp the opinions from Ruby programmers that really had tried out Python. I am primarily a Java developer these days (for the last three years at least), but having toyed around with Python, seemed to me like a really clean language. So I really am a bit surprised and frustrated by all this Ruby thing, as I cannot seem to grasp it's benefits by reading articles and examples (which I did right away when reading about Python). I just don't seem to get it. Have fun exploring, > > Dave On another topic, I just wanted to mention that the main reason for me starting to look into Ruby, is the pragmatic gurus writing a book about it. I consider 'The Pragmatic programmer' to be my bible these days, and I carry around my now ragged copy of it all the time. I admire you people, and thank you for writing such a wonderful and easy-read book about best practices and approaches that really should be more commonplace in our industry. So the first thing I thought when seeing the announcement for your new book was "Wow, if these people have been enlighted by it, it really must be really good". So I'll definitly buy 'Programming Ruby' ASAP. BTW, your link page on Ruby on www.pragmaticprogrammer.com seems to be broken at the time of this writing.