From: "Volkmann, Mark" Date: 2003-08-21T05:02:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby? This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36752.FF04C90E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Another interesting language to consider is Water at http://www.waterlang.org. I don't suggest it as an alternative to Ruby, partly because I don't think it's ready for production usage yet. However, there are some interesting ideas to be mined from it. -----Original Message----- From: Martin DeMello [mailto:martindemello@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:11 PM To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby? Sean O'Dell 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. martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.G. Edwards & Sons' outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C36752.FF04C90E Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

Another interesting language to consider is Water at http://www.waterlang.org= .  I don't suggest it as an alternative to Ruby, partly because I = don't think it's ready for production usage yet.  However, there are s= ome interesting ideas to be mined from it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin DeMello [mailto:martindemello@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:11 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
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 progr= amming language every
> year.  I think though, for me, it has to at le= ast have the promise of
> being better than Ruby for me to bother.
>
> As far as I know, nothing with that promise has arr= ived.

Haskell was definitely worth the learning experience. Rig= ht now some of
us over on the LotY group have settled on Oz, whose enth= usiastically
multiparadigm nature promises to be fun. And I'm also le= arning Nice for
pragmatic reasons - it's the only really attractive lang= uage I've seen
that compiles to JVM bytecode. None of them are necessar= ily better than
Ruby, but they play in different sandpits altogether, so= the comparison
doesn't arise.

martin



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