On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:56:28PM +0000, Rob Partington wrote: > In message <BF7C70E24CF5D311B52F00B0D0215D411B13FE@IH_SERVER>, > "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hey, > > Dude. > > > The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: > > It is really cool. > > > 1. Why on earth you'd use Python instead of Ruby. > > I wouldn't any more. The only reasons I used Python were sensible > OO and the XML parsing was less painful than XML::Parser at the time. > Now I get my OO from Ruby, and my sensible XML parsing from XML::DOM > or XML::XPath. > > > 2. If anyone here has used it for production code and knows more about it. > > Yes, I use it, and I know a bit about it. It's fun. Can you give us some more details, I'm interested too ;) What's the performance like, library availability, can you recommend any of the books on it etc etc? jp
