From: "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...[REMOVE_THE_SPAM]>
Date: 2003-08-21T02:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

gt wrote:

> Ironically, Google makes use of Python.
> 
> Which reminds me that I would like to see a discussion
> on the reasons for not using ruby more for cgi and web page
> generation. I've seen a couple of "ruby" sites that
> use php. Perhaps only due to web-hosting services refusing
> to implement it.
> But thats a story for a different thread.

I was just talking with someone last night about that.  My personal 
opinion is that a lot of people signed on with Python before Ruby was a 
viable choice (and rightly so) so now a lot of folks are simply using 
Python because it was the default choice if you were leaving Perl.

	Sean O'Dell