From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T04:22:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?


> Sean O'Dell <sean@cseplsoafmt.com[remove_the_spam]> wrote:
>
> > I whole-heartedly agree we should learn a new programming language every
> > year.  I think though, for me, it has to at least have the promise of
> > being better than Ruby for me to bother.
> >
> > As far as I know, nothing with that promise has arrived.
>
> Haskell was definitely worth the learning experience. Right now some of
> us over on the LotY group have settled on Oz, whose enthusiastically
> multiparadigm nature promises to be fun. And I'm also learning Nice for
> pragmatic reasons - it's the only really attractive language I've seen
> that compiles to JVM bytecode. None of them are necessarily better than
> Ruby, but they play in different sandpits altogether, so the comparison
> doesn't arise.

Haskell is on my list of top 50 things to learn. Life is so short. :)

On the subject of switching languages... maybe we should ask
ts (Guy Decoux) why he switched from French to Ruby... ;)

Hal