From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 14:05:26 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 EF5D816A410 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean@cyberwang.net) Received: from spunkymail-a4.g.dreamhost.com (d0618453.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102C413C4CA for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:05:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean@cyberwang.net) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (68-184-120-224.dhcp.smyr.ga.charter.com [68.184.120.224]) by spunkymail-a4.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADF0131A2B; Tue, 15 May 2007 07:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4649BE00.3020404@cyberwang.net> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:04:48 -0400 From: Sean Bryant User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper 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> In-Reply-To: <464969B3.3050306@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Evans , 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 14:05:27 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Where did you find you need perl to build ruby. Its a separate thing all together.