A good thing about Ruby is that it keeps the python-dev guys on their toes thus producing a better Python.
A good thing about Python is that it keeps the ruby-dev guys on their toes thus producing a better Ruby.
I think few people come to a crossroad where they chose either Python or Ruby. Most people will see Java, C, Perl at the crossroad and once they've gone down the Ruby one they'll ignore the sidelining python one because there's little additional benefit for changing your mind.
I don't think anybody would want to make you switch. Everybody should use the right tool for the job. And for joy in programming for me the right tool is ruby for you it might be python.
The point I disagree with you is the problems that the existence of a japanese community brings. I hope that python also has some users whoose mother tongue is not english, and ruby has a really nice english speaking community and a helpfull mailing list/newsgroup comp.lang.ruby where matz (the language creator) participates.
regards,
Brian
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A good thing about Ruby is that it keeps the python-dev guys on their toes thus producing a better Python.
A good thing about Python is that it keeps the ruby-dev guys on their toes thus producing a better Ruby.
I think few people come to a crossroad where they chose either Python or Ruby. Most people will see Java, C, Perl at the crossroad and once they've gone down the Ruby one they'll ignore the sidelining python one because there's little additional benefit for changing your mind.
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I don't think anybody would want to make you switch. Everybody should use the right tool for the job. And for joy in programming for me the right tool is ruby for you it might be python. The point I disagree with you is the problems that the existence of a japanese community brings. I hope that python also has some users whoose mother tongue is not english, and ruby has a really nice english speaking community and a helpfull mailing list/newsgroup comp.lang.ruby where matz (the language creator) participates. regards, Brian