SoC

[Garrett Cooper]

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