From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T19:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advocacy in sigs

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> "More powerful than Perl, more object-oriented than Python."
>
>           -matz, Pick-Axe Foward

This was right at the time of publication, but this is a moving
target.  One of the things that Python people could not do was to
subclass dictionaries and similar.  The Year in Scripting Languages
suggests that they can now do this.  Perlists may argue that one
power of Perl is its huge library (CPAN).  Therefore I'd argue for
promoting Ruby without comparison.  Let people form their own
judgements about relative merits.  Linguistic diversity contributed
to Ruby's beauty and strength, so it would be unhelpful to aim to
eradicate this diversity, or even suggest eradication.

        Hugh