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What pythonistas think of ruby

5 points by ceekays 13y ago

garrettdreyfus 13y ago
I think generalizing a group of people as pythonistas is murky.
runjake 13y ago
First, this is from 2010 and is a repost to HN. Second, this site's favicon made me think I was redirected to a YouTube link. Third, there are a ton of us who do both Python and Ruby programming. This whole us vs. them implication is pretty annoying. Fourth, Grosenbach states: I’m not sure if the shock was from hearing someone ... or from learning that someone considers Larry Wall to be a hero. Grosenbach is a really nice guy, so I'm curious as to how he meant that Larry Wall snipe. Larry is also a very nice guy in my experience and is fully worthy of being considered a "hero" in the technical sense. While Perl is considered out of style, it was the scripting language throughout most of the 90s and is still in use as a glue language today. It's influence is pretty vast.
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- ceekays 13y ago
  I agree with you on several things: [1] Actually I am a Rubyist and a Pythonista at the same time. I did not see the original post on the forum, so I just posted this one [2] I am not sure if the favicon has anything to do with YouTube because I see the colours are slightly different. However, I may not argue for or against because it is of less significance to me [3] "If there is still a high priesthood among programmers, it must be those few who know how to do this [i.e. develop a programming language]." - (Herbert Schildt, C - The Complete Reference). I think there is a big difference between the language and the creator. We may not like all languages (because of our personal preferences) but we need to respect the creators because just to create a programming language is not an easy job. So I do not think it is good to insult, exasperate, degrade or demean a creator of a language. Larry Wall is a good man just like Matz (Ruby), Dennis Ritchie (C), James Gosling (Java), Ken Thompson (B and Go), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), etc

5 points by ceekays 13y ago

I think generalizing a group of people as pythonistas is murky.

First, this is from 2010 and is a repost to HN. Second, this site's favicon made me think I was redirected to a YouTube link. Third, there are a ton of us who do both Python and Ruby programming. This whole us vs. them implication is pretty annoying. Fourth, Grosenbach states: I’m not sure if the shock was from hearing someone ... or from learning that someone considers Larry Wall to be a hero. Grosenbach is a really nice guy, so I'm curious as to how he meant that Larry Wall snipe. Larry is also a very nice guy in my experience and is fully worthy of being considered a "hero" in the technical sense. While Perl is considered out of style, it was the scripting language throughout most of the 90s and is still in use as a glue language today. It's influence is pretty vast.

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ceekays 13y ago
I agree with you on several things: [1] Actually I am a Rubyist and a Pythonista at the same time. I did not see the original post on the forum, so I just posted this one [2] I am not sure if the favicon has anything to do with YouTube because I see the colours are slightly different. However, I may not argue for or against because it is of less significance to me [3] "If there is still a high priesthood among programmers, it must be those few who know how to do this [i.e. develop a programming language]." - (Herbert Schildt, C - The Complete Reference). I think there is a big difference between the language and the creator. We may not like all languages (because of our personal preferences) but we need to respect the creators because just to create a programming language is not an easy job. So I do not think it is good to insult, exasperate, degrade or demean a creator of a language. Larry Wall is a good man just like Matz (Ruby), Dennis Ritchie (C), James Gosling (Java), Ken Thompson (B and Go), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), etc