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I'm not trying to start a war here. Python and Ruby both have their place. Just saying, this is a ruby users problem, generally speaking, not a python user's pr
by gte910h 16y ago
I'm not trying to start a war here. Python and Ruby both have their place. Just saying, this is a ruby users problem, generally speaking, not a python user's problem.
I actually find that this is one of the weaknesses of ruby (vs python): People who prefer it also know perl and can stand working with perl. The python people can't stand perl largely, and make a billion python modules. So, we have lots of python modules duplicating perl modules cause after python, people were unwilling to return to perl.
- wycats 16y agoI am not aware of a significant number of Ruby developers who jump back to Perl instead of writing Ruby libraries. I'm not sure where you got that impression from.
- gte910h 16y agoRuby developers I've worked with who've done exactly what the guy in the article did? "Yo Sam, what's the .pl file. Is that from a tool? Naw, the perl library is really nice...I'd have had to write the parser if I did it in Ruby" Most of the Ruby developers I know are in their 30's and all but 2 know perl. That may be the difference.