SoC

[Sean Bryant]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Tom Evans wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:17 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> Ruby's nice, but it's built on Perl so I have suspicions on its 
>>> overall usability / speed given my experience with Perl over the 
>>> past 4 months daily for work :(.. Ruby's just the new big thing for 
>>> programming languages, so everyone's into it. Kind of like how Java 
>>> was compared to C/C++ a few years back. But once everything dies 
>>> down people will realize that they'll still have to program in 
>>> C/C++/Perl for real-world applications.
>>>
>>> Python seems better than Ruby from what I can see, but I really 
>>> don't like the mandatory indentation thing. Ew..
>>>
>>
>> Rubies are better Perls. That's the only connection between the two. One
>> day, a Japanese programmer got fed up with Perl, and wrote a better
>> language (for varying meanings of better).
>>
>> Its not based or built on Perl in any respect.
>>
>> Python and Ruby both have the same targets; to speed development time
>> and increase programmer productivity.
>
> But one must make a Perl before one can make a Ruby. Maybe that was 
> what I was trying to aim for.
>
> Ruby's nice, but it seems like it's going to be a bit passe in a few 
> years like Java was for compilable / interpretable languages.
>
> -Garrett
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Where did you find you need perl to build ruby. Its a separate thing all 
together.