From: Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T21:33:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

Sean O'Dell wrote:
> I'm sure people have left Ruby for certain pragmatic reasons ("my job 
> requires me to write in Perl" or "Ruby just isn't as fast as assembly"), 
> but I have trouble imagining even one person leaving Ruby because it 
> wasn't a good enough script language for them.  You can find people who 
> never tried it, or tried it for a day and missed their old language 
> Perl/Python/Bash/Basic so much they had to go back, but I doubt you can 
> find any Ruby-expatriates among the group of people who have given it a 
> solid try.

Not true, see http://www.ruby-talk.org/39308 . Compare with the authors 
of http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=aspectr . Writing AspectR is 
probably much more then "a solid try".

   Tobias