Ruby Impressions
Luigi Ballabio
ballabio at mac.com
Fri Jan 11 06:10:51 EST 2002
At 08:28 AM 1/11/02 +0000, Phil Tomson wrote:
> >C++ & Java guru Bruce Eckel has done a Python/Ruby compairison. You can read
> >it at http://www.mindview.net/Etc/FAQ.html#Ruby
>
>Eckel says:
>
>"So far I keep coming to the conclusion that
>Ruby is just a bad ripoff of Python"
If I were to try and reproduce idiomatic Italian expressions in English by
translating word by word, I would naturally come to the conclusion that
English is a bad ripoff of Italian (which might be partly true if one takes
Latin into account, but I won't enter into that---I don't have a
flame-proof jacket nearby :)
The same would happen if Bruce tried to write Ruby programs in a Pythonic way.
He would be uncomfortable and less productive---of course. Python is a
better language for writing Pythonic idioms. As far as I recognize them,
Ruby idioms took from Perl and Smalltalk instead. Apples and oranges come
to mind :)
Mostly-a-matter-of-taste-in-my-opinion-ly yours,
Luigi
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