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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/