Re: What say about Ruby when marketing Python?

On Mar 4, 2004, at 8:59 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> I've been suggesting people consider Python.
> People sometimes ask about Ruby and how it compares
> to Python.  I found a few differences but no difference
> between either that makes one overwhelmingly better than the other.
> They both seem very good in design and both are much better
> than Perl.
>
> What do people say when marketing Python and people
> ask you "What about Ruby?"
>
> (Yes I've read lots of threads on the minor differences but
> that is all I can find... minor differences.)
>
> (A related but important question is how to answer the
> question "What about Ruby" without getting into a religious war
> with your audience.)
>
You don't have to get into language syntactic issues. The short answer 
is that Ruby is much less mature than Python. It is  behind Python with 
regards to standard libraries and 3rd party libraries and tools.

ka