I needed certain Windows specific libraries that were difficult to impossible to do in Ruby. For example the Qt toolkit, LDAP support, and a WinCE implementation. Python is more Windows-friendly so I ported certain apps over to Python since Ruby left me hanging in just those specifics areas.
As for my preferred language I use Smalltalk, Ruby, and Python each about a third of the time depending on what I'm looking to accomplish. For quick admin scripts Ruby is my choice, but perhaps that's just because I learned it first :-) Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > gregarican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I came from using Ruby about a year or so [ ... ] > > That's an interesting way round. Why did you consider Python if > you already knew Ruby, and which is now your preferred language? > (I've no interest in learning Ruby, but from what I've seen of it > I similarly can't imagine what would motivate me to learn Python.) > > -- > \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ > ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" > \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke > her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list