Tom Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >> So - _I_ think the better user-experience comes froma well-working >> easy to use REPL to quickly give the scripts a try. > > > I'd agree with that. Which is better, a difficult language with lots of > fancy tools to help you write it, or an easy language? > > I don't know Groovy, but having looked at some examples, it looks like > jave with a makeover, which, compared to python, sounds like a difficult > language. > > As for python vs ruby, i can't really offer any insights on the > languages themselves. Personally, i'd go for python, but that's because > i know python and not ruby.
I know a bit of Ruby, and my *very humble* opinion is that Python is easier for beginners - *but* I'm probably (certainly) biased here, so you'd better find some non-programmers having learn Ruby in a similar context and ask them about this (with the buzzword around Rails, you find such people easily...) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list