* Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061107 08:27]: > Apropos of nothing at all... > > "Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Carroll, Barry wrote: > >> ... consensus was that Python was much better than Ruby > > > > Sounds like you had a table full of Pythonistas. > > And Andreas, Danny and I also argued for Ruby. > And elsewhere Tim making a case for Rebol. > > It just strikes me as interesting that on a Python oriented mailing > list we have people arguing in defence of other languages! This > is not something you see every day on the internet, and indicative > of the nature of the Python community I think. 1) - it speaks well for the python community that one can at all comment on the advantages of another language without negative repercussions.
2) - I find that I learn more and think for flexibly when I work in more than one language. If one is to earn a living as a programming - it's a rare job where one will code in one PL all the time. And after all, I read in some python books about the languages that influenced the development of python.... In fact, if you do web programming, avoiding having to do Javascript would be difficult - :-) tj > :-) > > Alan G. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
