How does Ruby compare to Python?? How good is DESIGN of Ruby compared to Python?

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Fri Feb 27 03:36:39 EST 2004


>>>>> "MetalOne" == MetalOne  <jcb at iteris.com> writes:

    MetalOne> Ruby is a fine language, but the community is smaller,
    MetalOne> the bindings to external libraries are smaller and the
    MetalOne> number of extra packages are smaller.

So, basically, it's probably not worth the trouble. It's a less mature
implementation of pretty much the same ideas. 

If you are jonesing for a new language to play with, you could as well
play with Lisp. At least you would learn something new.

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Ville Vainio   http://tinyurl.com/2prnb



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