On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:15:01PM -0000, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Hey, > > The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: > > 1. Why on earth you'd use Python instead of Ruby. Because Python is a lot cleaner and more elegant? And doesn't require all those daft nested "end"s? But I'm not going to do Python advocacy on a Perl list, I like my hairs unsinged. :-) The same question applies equally well to "Why would you use Ruby when you have Perl?". Except that people might feel that ruby has a little bit of an OO advantage (dunno, though. I both love and hate perl's OO). > 2. If anyone here has used it for production code and knows more about it. Pass. You may like to look on the ruby website, instead though. > It looks cooooooooool. No, it looks like Perl-envy. It has a few neat toys, but IMHO, doesn't differentiate itself enough from either Perl or Python. I do like the yield thingy though. Oh, and the Dr Dobbs 25th anniversary issue has a nice little introductory article in case anybody's interested: http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0101/0101b/0101b.htm -Dom