Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > Ray wrote: > (snip) > >> We're a Java shop so > >> our developers are trained in Java, Struts, Tomcat, etc. Any switch to > >> a dynamic language will be a huge change. However it baffles me that > >> they are open to at least a PoC in Rails. but when I suggested Python, > >> they went: "nah we're not interested in Python. Rails it is." > >> > >> *shrugs* whatever it is, those guys are doing something right. > > > > Making the Java people feel like they're doing something wrong, I > > guess. And perhaps the Rails people realised that by giving those > > people who lack direction, motivation, conviction or a sense of purpose > > or control something to gravitate towards, some of them might feel > > empowered enough to evangelise their discovery to the rest of the > > group. > > > > FWIW, and while it's certainly not enough by itself to explain the > phenomenon, I think that Ruby's object model being much more > conventional than Python's may have some influence too on RoR's adoption > by the Java world.
I don't know enough about Ruby to comment, but how is its object model "more conventional" than Python's? The only thing I can see is access control for methods, which seems like a silly thing to base a language decision on. > > > -- > bruno desthuilliers > python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for > p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list