From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 07:32:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B7016A402 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:32:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFD313C43E for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:32:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so1203279ugh for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:31:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=UtTnkqG6g60kc/fLpH+07BH8LfRHn6D/eGexu+DrsiiEg12Pz1T/oGI76h3Hvw8lOOJimI9nNYqaodyDItYonlmCL1Kva06BKQcaRNvbK1clSnDFpQGgsLm9rgwZtEnbAQ20zPZA8kHa4bxN3Y9sSGOzJ3WVecF/bU6wbm104TQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=bhfIRg69Kd3h9VQv5wL+Ra/zQWrhGGdfVosJKlyjrmOptcheVGcen5m24XUV46YHF3s7PQt3OOBIYxhmsdqkeZ7lf2fx3GZgUYbC3jS0q8ZzQtNabEyPiTcBhlqT5xYhy5iKZM7Sohbw/bf5MQj6ufvqkj40GqR5BlBlT41+AhA= Received: by 10.67.44.4 with SMTP id w4mr4447168ugj.1179214319363; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1? ( [87.194.39.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b35sm15568828ugd.2007.05.15.00.31.58; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Evans To: Garrett Cooper 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VyRVEW7U1hNULI/mnY5r" Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 08:31:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1179214317.1791.38.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 07:32:01 -0000 --=-VyRVEW7U1hNULI/mnY5r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > usability / speed given my experience with Perl over the past 4 months=20 > daily for work :(.. Ruby's just the new big thing for programming=20 > languages, so everyone's into it. Kind of like how Java was compared to=20 > C/C++ a few years back. But once everything dies down people will=20 > realize that they'll still have to program in C/C++/Perl for real-world=20 > applications. >=20 > Python seems better than Ruby from what I can see, but I really don't=20 > like the mandatory indentation thing. Ew.. >=20 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. --=-VyRVEW7U1hNULI/mnY5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGSWHtlcRvFfyds/cRAu37AKCATd15WXhLM1Quf+yKBP4+MQBNmACfcow+ HdNnAn41oEfz50yBhxwOdAE= =XB+h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VyRVEW7U1hNULI/mnY5r--