REPOST: Re: Two languages, too similar, competing in the same space.

[Ron Stephens]

I find this very interesting. Thanks for sharing it, it sounds very useful!


HarryO wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:56:29 +1100, Ron Stephens wrote:
>
> > ... But
> > now that Ruby is out there, it absorbs enormous mind share, and
> > development time to recreate libraries etc., which are already available
> > in Python,  thus hurting Python.
>
> I have only tried it in a very minimal way, just to see that it did
> basically what was advertised, but you might be interested in this.
>
> There's a Ruby library that allows you to do things like:
>
>    require 'python'
>    require 'python/httplib'
>
>    h = Py::Httplib::HTTP.new(host)
>
>    h.putrequest('GET', path)
>    h.putheader('Accept', 'text/html')
>    h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
>    h.endheaders()
>
> Ie, the "require 'python'" makes pulling in Python libraries
> as simple as ...
>
>    require 'python/SOME_PYTHON_LIB'
>
> which is almost as easy as doing it in Python.
>
> Similarly, referencing elements of such a library simply
> requires prefixing them with "Py::".  Once you have a
> handle to a Python object, you call it the same way you
> would in Python.  I don't think one could make it much simpler.
>
> So, to some extent, it's possible to avoid reinventing the
> wheel.  How well this works, I can't say, just that the
> examples I played with worked as advertised.
>
> Obviously, there's some overhead, in that it's running a copy
> of the Python interpreter to execute the Python code, but so
> long as the work the library is doing for one is larger than
> the actual overhead of the call to it, that shouldn't be a
> problem.

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