From: hanzspam@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hannu_Kankaanp=E4=E4?=) Date: 2003-08-21T05:11:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby? Sean O'Dell wrote in message news:... > How many posts can you find on Google/Groups (Usenet) from people > stating they used to program in Ruby and switched to something else? Okay. Suppose I propose a langauge called 'foo' to you, right here. How many people do you know that used to program in 'foo' and switched to something else? Does that make 'foo' the best language around? Well, of course people do use Ruby. But Python and Perl are better known scripting languages, so mostly people start with Python or Perl, then hear about Ruby and change to it only if it seems good. The likelyhood of someone starting with Ruby and then switching to something is just extremely low. Parly because Ruby is good, but mostly because people tend to learn Ruby *after*, not *before* the other languages. > try looking around and finding who left what languages for > what reasons and weigh that information. Most people who dislike Ruby, don't leave it: They just choose not to even start with it. That's the significant part you left out from your reasoning.