Re: Fw: Re: junior-programming
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:14:29PM -0400, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
> what about ruby? I've been reading the ruby book, and it's syntax is
> really clean (with niceties like number.abs() and string.length()).
> It looks like it would be an easy language to start with. And, it is
> interpreted so there is no compile, run, oops, change, recompile,
> repeat cycle.
Ruby was considered. However, Python was preferred over Ruby simply
because there is a wider user base in English-speaking countries, and the
English docs are therefore much better for it.
Ben
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