From: gabriele renzi Date: 2004-05-11T17:48:53+09:00 Subject: Re: in search of a compelling reason to use ruby.... il Tue, 11 May 2004 07:26:02 GMT, Ryan Paul ha scritto:: Hope you'll have fun using ruby :) >There is a growing community of python malcontents that might be >interested in ruby. Well, it's true that there is a constant flux of people trying to make ruby their own language. I tried this too :) We just don't have forks/clones, stuff that is in many places for python (CPython's core,Stackless' continuations,Prothon's prototypes and '=' as an expression) is all available in core ruby or can be easily done through smart usage of few features. > They have a lot of really creative syntax ideas, most >of which are ignored by the mainstream python community. I think it would >be of benefit to the ruby community to be aware of some of their interests >and motivations. I use to read c.l.py from time to time, and I found prothon initially interesting. But, the core idea from Prothon (i.e. classless prototyped OO) is already available in ruby[1], (provided that you define with() properly and use Object.clone()), while many others like the funny obj$met syntax and many things in David Mc Quigg's proposals (the 'python 3' and 'python 4' ones) does not sound really nice to me.. >Some of those programmers might be interested in >contributing to ruby, rather than working on their own independent >python forks, if I can illustrate ways in which ruby meets their >individual needs. You're missing the social point of view: everybody wants to write the next big language :) [1] well, partially joking :)