-:) -Rich

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Turnbull
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

.... and so the PointBash language was created.  Thanks, you've doomed us all.

"C:\Dev-Code\zerodiv.pb [Warning] Expected period at end of `int i = x/0` add period and recompile.'


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
> E-Resource Systems Manager, MIT Libraries [log in to unmask]
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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
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University of Central Missouri
> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> JCKL 2260
> 660.543.8022
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Riley Childs
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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/
>



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