walterbyrd a écrit : > 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.
Ruby is probably far better than Python at sys-admin tasks. And, while recently made much more visible because of the hype around Rails, it's definitively not specialized in web development. > 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. Perl is not what I'd call a "general purpose" language. It has been explicitly designed as a sys-admin tool. PHP is of course not a general purpose language - the only serious reason to use PHP is that it's widely available on cheap web-hosting. Python and Ruby are general purpose languages - they have been designed to help writing applications, whatever the domain and the UI. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
