On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:15:01PM -0000, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me:
>
> 1. Why on earth you'd use Python instead of Ruby.
Because Python is a lot cleaner and more elegant? And doesn't require
all those daft nested "end"s? But I'm not going to do Python advocacy
on a Perl list, I like my hairs unsinged. :-)
The same question applies equally well to "Why would you use Ruby when
you have Perl?". Except that people might feel that ruby has a little
bit of an OO advantage (dunno, though. I both love and hate perl's OO).
> 2. If anyone here has used it for production code and knows more about it.
Pass. You may like to look on the ruby website, instead though.
> It looks cooooooooool.
No, it looks like Perl-envy. It has a few neat toys, but IMHO, doesn't
differentiate itself enough from either Perl or Python.
I do like the yield thingy though.
Oh, and the Dr Dobbs 25th anniversary issue has a nice little
introductory article in case anybody's interested:
http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0101/0101b/0101b.htm
-Dom
