SoC

[Garrett Cooper]

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