Once you have committed your soul to visual Basic, there is no turning back.

On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> umad bro? ;)
> 
> Josh Welker
> Information Technology Librarian
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University of Central Missouri
> Warrensburg, MO 64093
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> -----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
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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/