[NTLUG:Discuss] For Language Junkies

[Chris Cox]

Peter A. Koren wrote:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/12/22/173238.shtml?
> tid=108&tid=156
> 
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=141312
> 
> Bruce Eckel has a great discussion of some programming language issues.
> 

My summary of Bruce's remarks:

 "A lot of "hyper" unknowledgeable people are moving to Ruby.  Python
 has great maturity and much larger community.  Java sucks.  C++
 sucks.  But it's ok if you're using any of those as long as
 you're not advocating Ruby.... which is simply a better Perl."

I like Ruby better than Python because I hate languages which
are dependent on white space.... there... now wasn't that
simple??  Hyper?  I don't think so.

Ruby certainly needs some maturing....  I just how it
makes it trivial to extend classes on the fly (very
interpretive)... maybe Python does that too... my brain won't
allow me to use python though.  Maybe I'm hyper after all!

Nevermind.. you're right Bruce... Ruby folks are all just
hyper ethusiasts.