What pythonistas think of ruby

http://blog.pluralsight.com/what-pythonistas-think-of-ruby

by ceekays • 13 years ago

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garrettdreyfus• 13 years ago

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

runjake• 13 years 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.

ceekays• 13 years 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

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