Garrett Cooper wrote:
Tom Evans wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:17 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Ruby's nice, but it's built on Perl so I have suspicions on its
overall usability / speed given my experience with Perl over the past
4 months daily for work :(.. Ruby's just the new big thing for
programming languages, so everyone's into it. Kind of like how Java
was compared to C/C++ a few years back. But once everything dies down
people will realize that they'll still have to program in C/C++/Perl
for real-world applications.
Python seems better than Ruby from what I can see, but I really don't
like the mandatory indentation thing. Ew..
Rubies are better Perls. That's the only connection between the two. One
day, a Japanese programmer got fed up with Perl, and wrote a better
language (for varying meanings of better).
Its not based or built on Perl in any respect.
Python and Ruby both have the same targets; to speed development time
and increase programmer productivity.
But one must make a Perl before one can make a Ruby. Maybe that was what
I was trying to aim for.
Ruby's nice, but it seems like it's going to be a bit passe in a few
years like Java was for compilable / interpretable languages.
-Garrett
Sorry for all you Java lovers out there.. it's just that from where I'm
at I don't see anyone using it in the workplace (Intel). We're all using
C/C++/Perl, with occasional spots of Ruby/Python.
-Garrett
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