From: "Leif B. Kristensen" <junkmail@...>
Date: 2004-04-26T17:34:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How's ruby compare to it older brother python

Hunn E. Balsiche wrote:

> in term of its OO features, syntax consistencies, ease of use, and
> their development progress. I have not use python but heard about it
> quite often; and ruby, is it mature enough to be use for developing
> serious application, e.g web application as it has not many features
> in it yet.
> 
> I've given up on Perl for its ugly syntax and it is not the easiest
> language to learn. How about PHP?

It really depends on what you'll want to do. PHP is a great language for
getting dynamic HTML pages up and running quickly. Perl is great for
its string-handling abilities. (On my Web pages, I actually call a Perl
script from PHP precisely for this reason.)

However, both PHP and Perl can be very unwieldy for large projects. I'm
a newcomer to Python, but it seems to scale much better than the other
P-languages.

For a first tour of Python, I'll suggest that you read the excellent
tutorial by the language's author, Guido van Rossum:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/

regards,
-- 
Leif Biberg Kristensen
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