From: "John \"sb\" Werneken" <johnwerneken@netzero.net>
Thanks for continuing the comparisons.
Hmmm, so the python hype might be justified, in your opinion...sounds like a
good thing...
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:30:38 -0800
> From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
> Subject: Evaluation of Ruby
>
> From: Jeff Miller <jeffm@dynamite.com.au>
>
> > Have you taken a look at ruby (www.ruby-lang.org).
> > I heard it described as a better perl with oo, garbage
> > collection and dynamic loading. While it may not be
> > suited to the project at hand. I'd be interested to
> > hear people's opinon of it?
>
> There is a great comparison to other languages at:
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/compar.html
>
> A big red flag went up when I saw this:
> * Ruby's functions (methods) are not first class objects
>
> That means you can't write a method that takes a function name as
> an argument and then dispatch to it. You can do it in Java, but it's
> ugly. It's the kind of flexibility I'm personally interested in, but
> that
> may not be so important to you.
>
> There are more important problems, though. Among them: operator
> overloading. This is a *really* bad idea for readability. You may
> *think* you know what "+" does, but "+" may do something totally
> different for a + b and c+d, if the type of a and b is different from
> the
> type of c and d.
>
> No tuples in Ruby.
>
> Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I am a language afficianado,
> and am always on the lookout for that one "super language" that
> gets it all right. Right now, Python is looking pretty darn close.
>
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