From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-26T17:44:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How's ruby compare to it older brother python

il Mon, 26 Apr 2004 03:08:13 -0400, "Hunn E. Balsiche"
<hunnebal@yahoo.com> ha scritto::

>in term of its OO features, syntax consistencies, ease of use, and their
>development progress. 

some people here will tell you that they prefer ruby. Some on c.l.py
will prefer python. 

As of python 2.3 and ruby 1.8.1 both languages are consistent, easy to
use and very powerful. Try both and make your choice.

>I have not use python but heard about it quite often;
>and ruby, is it mature enough to be use for developing serious application,

sure it is, see http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RealWorldRuby
>e.g web application as it has not many features in it yet.

sure , see http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/HomePage
or http://www.navel.gr/
or http://rubycrafters.com/
or http://www.brain-tokyo.jp/research/amrita/
or http://www.spice-of-life.net/download/cgikit/index_en.html
or http://modruby.net/

And this are just the first I can thin of :)


>I've given up on Perl for its ugly syntax and it is not the easiest language
>to learn. How about PHP?

I don't like php4 as it lacks lot of useful things. 
I don't kinow much of php5 but I don't like much what I see.
If you do, use it :)