Re: What say about Ruby when marketing Python?

On Mar 4, 2004, at 11:41 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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>> 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.
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> Kevin
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> Thanks for the answer.  Just to play devil's advocate here....
> Maturity is relative.  I could use your strategy to suggest that
> Perl is older and more than Python and hence we should all use
> Perl. =)
>
Yes you could, but the argument doesn't work for Perl because of all 
the other problems that Perl has such as being write-only. There are 
some areas where Python is way ahead of Perl as far 3rd party 
libraries, most notably GUI programming. I brought up the maturity 
issue because looking just at the language, Ruby and Python are so 
similar in capabilities, and the syntax is up to personal preference. 
And yes I did see your =)

If Parrot ever bears fruit or we get another standard way of leveraging 
the huge number of Perl modules that will be a big win for Python and 
probably Ruby too. On a related note, Python still needs a CPAN like 
repository for Python modules and packages.

ka