Ruby will overtake Python within four years.

[mkx at excite.com]

Funny how folks like to make predictions based on imagined statistics.

Given the way that this field changes, I doubt anyone could accurately
make such a prediction based on established languages.

Personally, I have lost of reasons not to use either Perl of VB, but
they are _very_ popular in my market. The positive apsects of a
language rarely can overcome a mindshare based on history and
investment.


On 23 Mar 2001 04:58:09 -0000, "prashant  patel"
<cognoscente at rediffmail.com> wrote:

>No I am not a ruby programmer not even using any scripting language other once used vbscript in ASP.
>my major programming language has been java. But with the experience in java, I want learn a scripting language which increases my productivity, java is simply to redundant.
>for example : doing an IO required to use so many classes.
>for the past one month i have been find a alternative, 
>and found three scripting language python,perl,and ruby.
>for now python is my choice, perl is surelty a no for its syntax.but how about python and ruby, as i would be 
>allocating a lot of time learing language the particular language, could some one give out facts about ruby.
>I would be unjustified actually to ask python lover's the good and bad of ruby compared to python, but these discusions will help us also evaluate python.
>And yes the subject line and be taken from. 
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/99126/102-2233024-4095364
>But my inclination are towards python.