On May 18, 10:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > > I think that Ruby, which roughly speaking sits somewhere between Python > and Perl, is closer to Python than Perl is.
I don't know much about Ruby, but it does not seem to be commonly used for anything other than web-development. It may be that Ruby could be used for other purposes, but I don't seem to see it happen much. I know that PHP can used at the command line, and could be used for the same sort of sys-admin tasks for which, Perl and Python are often used, but I don't seem to see that happening either. I'm not sure if Ruby, or PHP, are as general purpose as Perl or Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
