Josef: Make sure you ask this question on Ruby mailing list too. Just like James I too am personally biased towards python and so will be a lot of people on this list.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au>wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Josef Tupag <joseftu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before I really dive in, though, I'm curious to hear what others think > about > > the choice between these two languages. > > This is a terribly subjective opinion and I apologize to anyone that > actually uses > Ruby and likes it :) > > I find Ruby (compared to Python) to be a syntactical rip-off and > a bad one at that. Some things in Ruby aren't nearly as simple or > as concise as you would find in Python. > > When it comes to "Web Frameworks" IHMO, I believe Python has > a lot wide variety of tools available to you, not just Django, > TurbotGears, Pylons, etc. (I can't comment on Ruby). > > Aside from my not liking some of Ruby's syntax or semantics > I found Ruby on Rails to be awful. I went through it's turotial > a few months back and didn't even make the first couple of pages > before I got utterly bored with reading. > > So there you go... > > Sorry I can't offer you a real objective response! > > cheers > James > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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