Diversity is a good thing and everyone should use the tool they best think suits their problem. I can find many good reasons to use C/C++, or even Prolog or Lisp for specific problem domains. However, I really cannot see the light when it comes to Ruby. There is simply to little innovation brought into the game for me to care, but I'm the first to admit that I'm heavily biased, having used Python for more than ten years now.
Talking about the Japanes issue, I think this says it all:
"Does anyone else continually wish they could read japanese and in turn read Matzs blog?"
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
Sorry, I am surely somehow responsible for this but I do not aim at a ruby is better than python because of ... discussion. I like it, c.l.r and redhanded gives me enough to read about ruby and I like to do gg=G in my vim editor, but I really don't want to evangelicalize anyone.
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Diversity is a good thing and everyone should use the tool they best think suits their problem. I can find many good reasons to use C/C++, or even Prolog or Lisp for specific problem domains. However, I really cannot see the light when it comes to Ruby. There is simply to little innovation brought into the game for me to care, but I'm the first to admit that I'm heavily biased, having used Python for more than ten years now.
Talking about the Japanes issue, I think this says it all:
"Does anyone else continually wish they could read japanese and in turn read Matzs blog?"
A Ruby user complaining on: http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/noteToGuidoOrientalNotOccidental.html.
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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
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Sorry, I am surely somehow responsible for this but I do not aim at a ruby is better than python because of ... discussion. I like it, c.l.r and redhanded gives me enough to read about ruby and I like to do gg=G in my vim editor, but I really don't want to evangelicalize anyone.
happy pythoning,
brian