That's my thoughts exactly:)
I love the idea of ruby, much like I love the idea of purely functional programming languages or highly prototyping language like Javascript. (specially modern JS from Mozilla not the outdated stuff you find in many browsers)
But the syntax of some of these languages are just.... horrid... why would anybody want to write code using cryptic symbols in 2011 ? This is where languages like Python have a big upper hand. It's easy to write, it has a strong focus on being well written and understandable (even years after writing the code) and very very fast. Besides that.. it allows you to very easily interact with other languages like c / c++ or Fortran.
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That's my thoughts exactly :)
I love the idea of ruby, much like I love the idea of purely functional programming languages or highly prototyping language like Javascript. (specially modern JS from Mozilla not the outdated stuff you find in many browsers)
But the syntax of some of these languages are just.... horrid... why would anybody want to write code using cryptic symbols in 2011 ? This is where languages like Python have a big upper hand. It's easy to write, it has a strong focus on being well written and understandable (even years after writing the code) and very very fast. Besides that.. it allows you to very easily interact with other languages like c / c++ or Fortran.