From: Ged Byrne <gedb01@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T18:02:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

Brandon,

I've switched from Python for two reasons:

1) Better objects.

Pythons objects lack access control.  They seem to be
designed for namespacing convenience rather than using
a true OO approach.

2) Perl Emulation

Despite being true OO, Ruby does an amazing job of
emulating Perl.

I was using Perl for munging data quickly.  Now I only
have to use Ruby.


 --- "Brandon J. Van Every"
<vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> wrote: > This question is
only meant to apply to people who
> used to use Python, but
> switched to Ruby.  Why did you do so?
> 
> Motive for my question: I am language / platform
> shopping and comparing the
> pros and cons of Python, C#, and anything that comes
> up on the radar in the
> course of it.  A lot of people who know about Python
> seem to know about
> Ruby.  Someone in comp.lang.python suggested that I
> should ask this
> particular question here to get more complete
> opinions.  The c.l.p people
> are mostly happy with Python and see few if any
> advantages to Ruby, although
> there is some discussion and dissention.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,                         www.3DProgrammer.com
> Brandon Van Every               Seattle, WA
> 
> 20% of the world is real.
> 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.
> 
>  

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