Ruby does seem to invoke feelings of love or hate depending on who I talk to. I used to work at a "prominent" university and there some guys there that just _hated_ Ruby. Not that I think Joel was saying he hated it, but he shared some similar concerns with my ex-workers.
I really wish he would have qualified his statement about Python more.
I've got to call you on the statement about Python 3 being new and untested. Progression of the language is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is the same old python you know and love, and despite what you might hear, there isn't much breakage beyond the norm, on the scale of a move to 2.5.
"there isn't much breakage beyond the norm, on the scale of a move to 2.5."
Have you seen PEP-3100 to see what is being changed ? A heck of a lot more than Python 2.5. (Thirty times more - forty ?)
The point is how the change will be perceived anyway.
I think the big point with Python, is that it seems to be a more general purpose prog. language than Ruby (at least in its use). Moreover, it seems to be that Python becomes a cornerstone under Linux (see all the devs made by Ubuntu, all the packages,...). I'am stuck with Python because whatever the obscure protocol, or the crazy idea you can think, it likely exists someone who has already worked on the same problem and made a Python module. I quietly fall asleep each night thinking that even if i had an unexpected need, that i don't want develop from ground, i will be saved by the Python community.
Don't worry, this is Python 3 we're talking about, not Perl 6. It'll still be the same language.
Perl6 is so gonna rock!!!
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