umad bro? ;)
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 Rich
Wenger
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:22 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
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]
617-253-0035
-----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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