From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-02-03T08:45:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Python 25 times as popular as Ruby !? Hello Mills, Monday, February 2, 2004, 4:29:29 PM, you wrote: ->> -----Original Message----- ->> From: Lothar Scholz [mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com] ->> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:18 AM ->> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; djd15@po.cwru.edu ->> Cc: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org ->> Subject: Re: Python 25 times as popular as Ruby !? ->> ->> ->> Hello Dan, ->> ->> Monday, February 2, 2004, 6:00:37 AM, you wrote: ->> ->> ->> Whats about cooperation instead of competition in the ruby ->> world ? The raa-installer vs. ruby-gems is one of the places ->> where energy is spend that could be used better. I also see ->> lots of libraries in competition to each other but not in ->> competition to some python/perl libraries, simply because ->> they are to weak to be a competitor. ->> MTa> I'm not sure about this. It seems to me that there is a lot of evidence in MTa> the life-sciences, the business world, and other places to show that things MTa> (life, businesses, software) flourish in an atmosphere of competition. Do you remember the "beautiful mind". John Nash got his nobel price for economy because he showed that this is not the truth (at least in most cases). MTa> To put it another way, a friend of mine told me that it doesn't make any MTa> sense to standardize on one way of doing things before many ways have been MTa> tried. Only with experience can you (or the market) judge whether one thing MTa> is better than another. But not everyone must try the same one hundered ways of doing for every language. Sorry this is stupid. We have to learn from all given input. Ruby is not much more different then others. And in fact in 99% it is not another way but simply the same way with a little variant of personal style. -- Best regards, Lothar mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com