The proliferation of boutique "languages" is a cancer on our community.  Each one is a YAP (Yet Another Priesthood), and little else.  The world does not need five slightly varying syntaxes for a substring function. If I had switched languages every time the web community "recommended" it, I would have rewritten a mountain of apps at least twice in the past five years.  What's next, a separate language to put periods at the end of sentences? Just my $.02.  That is all.

Rich Wenger
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

I am already a big user of PHP for web apps, but PHP does not make a fantastic scripting language in my experience.

Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
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University of Central Missouri
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Riley Childs
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

No mention of PHP?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Kurt Nordstrom <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Whoohoo, late to the party!
>
> I like Python because I learned it first, and I haven't had a need to 
> explore Ruby yet.
>
> I did briefly foray into learning Ruby in order to try to learn Rails, 
> and I actually found that my background in Python sort of gave me 
> brain-jam for learning Ruby, because the languages were so close 
> together, but just different in some ways. So my mind would be 'oh, so 
> it's just <insert Python idiom here> but then, it's not. If I tackle 
> Ruby again, I will definitely try to 'empty my cup' first.
>
> -K
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Marc Chantreux <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> Sorry comming late with it but:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:43:33AM -0500, Joshua Welker wrote:
>>> Not intending to start a language flame war/holy war here, but in 
>>> the library coding community, is there a particular reason to use 
>>> Ruby over Python or vice-versa?
>>
>> Is it the only choices you have? Because I'd personnally advice none 
>> of them
>>
>> I tested both of them before stucking to Perl just because
>>
>> * it is very pleasant when it come to explore and modify 
>> datastructures  and strings (which library things are).
>> * the ecosystem is briliant: perl comes with lot of libraries and 
>> tools  with a quality i haven't found in other languages.
>>
>> Of course, perl is not perfect and i really would like to use a 
>> modern emerging compiled language like go, rust, haskell or even 
>> something on the jvm (like clojure or the emerging perl6) but all of 
>> them miss libraries.
>>
>> HTH
>> regards
>> --
>> Marc Chantreux
>> Université de Strasbourg, Direction Informatique
>> 14 Rue René Descartes,
>> 67084  STRASBOURG CEDEX
>> ☎: 03.68.85.57.40
>> http://unistra.fr
>> "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet"
>>    -- Abraham Lincoln
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.blar.net/kurt/blog/