From: "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...[REMOVE_THE_SPAM]>
Date: 2003-08-22T03:34:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

Tobias Peters wrote:

> 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".

Yeah, here's a quote:

"I was initially reluctant to leave Ruby and wanted to make sure we
ported everything back to the Ruby version but after using it for a
period of time, it is less of a priority.  I still think it's a good
idea and I would probably help someone get going on it and maybe even
get to it some day if I find enough time just sitting around with
nothing to do."

Not a scathing review, but still pertinent to someone evaluating Ruby.

	Sean O'Dell