Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 01:08:03 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoC Message-ID: <46496A63.4090700@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <464969B3.3050306@u.washington.edu> References: <20070513040651.GB1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <4647F627.7020408@u.washington.edu> <20070514202922.GF1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> <4649426F.8050601@u.washington.edu> <1179214317.1791.38.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> <464969B3.3050306@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Tom Evans wrote: >> 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. > > But one must make a Perl before one can make a Ruby. Maybe that was what > I was trying to aim for. > > Ruby's nice, but it seems like it's going to be a bit passe in a few > years like Java was for compilable / interpretable languages. > > -Garrett Sorry for all you Java lovers out there.. it's just that from where I'm at I don't see anyone using it in the workplace (Intel). We're all using C/C++/Perl, with occasional spots of Ruby/Python. -Garrett
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