On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:45:26PM +1000, nornagon wrote: > Python and Ruby are in many ways very similar.
Where does this idea come from? Perl and Ruby are much closer, in my mind -- there's a clear flow of ideas from one to the other. Yes, you can do most of the same things in both languages, but that's not a big thing -- ultimately you can make the same comparison between most pairs of languages. There's lots of things that are tricky in Python that are trivial in Ruby, and I assume there's something that's hard in Ruby that's easy in Python. > bloodlust for the Other Kind. However, having a Snakes and Rubies > group would bring the two groups together in a (hopefully) peaceful > way, and lead to civil discussions and productive conversations. Bwahahahaha. In fact, I can think of few things *worse* than an S&R meeting -- it'd either be inflammatory sniping about the percieved or actual deficiencies in each other's languages, or anaemic acknowledgement of the other's virtues. Neither sounds like a fun way to spend an evening to me. > Codefests for code. S&R for scripting. That's what SIGs are all about. Because Ruby and Python are the only two possible languages for scripting? Personally, I think the general OSDC-style evening would probably be best -- especially if we can get some interesting talks on niche languages (or the term I heard today -- "stretch languages"[1]) to get people interested in what else is out there. - Matt [1] http://osteele.com/archives/2006/02/stretch-languages -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
