SoC

[Tom Evans]

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.
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