Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 08:31:57 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoC Message-ID: <1179214317.1791.38.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4649426F.8050601@u.washington.edu> References: <20070513040651.GB1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <4647F627.7020408@u.washington.edu> <20070514202922.GF1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <4649426F.8050601@u.washington.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:17 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Ruby's nice, but it's built on Perl so I have suspicions on its overall > usability / speed given my experience with Perl over the past 4 months > daily for work :(.. Ruby's just the new big thing for programming > languages, so everyone's into it. Kind of like how Java was compared to > C/C++ a few years back. But once everything dies down people will > realize that they'll still have to program in C/C++/Perl for real-world > applications. > > Python seems better than Ruby from what I can see, but I really don't > like the mandatory indentation thing. Ew.. > Rubies are better Perls. That's the only connection between the two. One day, a Japanese programmer got fed up with Perl, and wrote a better language (for varying meanings of better). Its not based or built on Perl in any respect. Python and Ruby both have the same targets; to speed development time and increase programmer productivity. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGSWHtlcRvFfyds/cRAu37AKCATd15WXhLM1Quf+yKBP4+MQBNmACfcow+ HdNnAn41oEfz50yBhxwOdAE= =XB+h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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