"Luke Paireepinart" wrote
I agree, but I can see how some people don't like it. It's similar to
the
Java vs. C++ debate I guess, Java is forced OO and C++ is optional.
While this is a genuine complaint for Java I have to be fair and say
that Ruby does a good job of hiding its OOP purity w
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM, kevin parks wrote:
> Well, the only thing more annoying than off topic discussion is "meta"
> discussion on lists and folks passing judgement on other people's posts (ie.
> you should have x, your should not have Y... I shouldn't have this second
> doughnut, but y
Well, the only thing more annoying than off topic discussion is "meta"
discussion on lists and folks passing judgement on other people's
posts (ie. you should have x, your should not have Y... I shouldn't
have this second doughnut, but you know what, i am gonna eat that
*and* have a second
> ruby on the other is more 'implicit,' used more in web-apps (via ROR),
> emphasizes code-readability/beauty, and is more flexible (i.e. has more than
> one way of doing something).
You mean people actually like ruby's syntax? I think Python's the prettiest
language I've worked with syntacticall
1. go to the book store
2. pull a copy of learning ruby by Michael Fitzgerald (ora.com)
3. pull a copy of learning python by Mark Lutz (ora.com)
4. read chapter 1 of each
5. make a decision
6. get to work
Alternately check comp.lang.python where this question comes up over
and over and over a
> I think you will get at the least a slight bias toward Python. However,
> I think you should do your own research and reach your own conclusions.
> Simply to get you started I put the following into Google: 'Python or
> Ruby: Which to learn' and got more than 1M hits.
> Best of luck.
> Robert
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 06:18 -0700, dan06 wrote:
> I'd like to learn a programming language - and I need help deciding between
> python and ruby. I'm interesting in learning what are the difference, both
> objective and subjective, between the two languages. I know this is a python
> mailing list, s
Hi,
I've never learned ruby, but from what I read, ruby is a pure OOP
language, and if you are going to do a lot of web creation, then ruby on
rails is a good one.
What I can advice is, if you choose to stick with python, perhaps you
shouldn't use python 3.x, but use python 2.5 (from what I
dan06 wrote:
I'd like to learn a programming language - and I need help deciding between
python and ruby. I'm interesting in learning what are the difference, both
objective and subjective, between the two languages. I know this is a python
mailing list, so knowledge/experience with ruby may be l
"dan06" wrote
I'd like to learn a programming language - and I need help deciding
between
python and ruby. I'm interesting in learning what are the difference,
There is lots of info on their web sites. asking a question like this is
troll baiting in a big way, any debate about languages wil
I think you will get at the least a slight bias toward Python. However,
I think you should do your own research and reach your own conclusions.
Simply to get you started I put the following into Google: 'Python or
Ruby: Which to learn' and got more than 1M hits.
Best of luck.
Robert
On Fri, 200
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 06:18 -0700, dan06 wrote:
> I'd like to learn a programming language - and I need help deciding between
> python and ruby. I'm interesting in learning what are the difference, both
> objective and subjective, between the two languages. I know this is a python
> mailing list, s
A primary draw of Ruby has always been Ruby on Rails, a web framework.
Python has a lot of really good web frameworks now, though, so this is less
of a concern.When I tried to learn Ruby, the docs were terrible. The
primary developers are Japanese, and the translations were very poor and
incompl
I'd like to learn a programming language - and I need help deciding between
python and ruby. I'm interesting in learning what are the difference, both
objective and subjective, between the two languages. I know this is a python
mailing list, so knowledge/experience with ruby may be limited - in wh
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