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Whither SmallScript? (was Re: Integer micro-benchmarks)
David Simmonspulsar at qks.com
Fri Apr 27 05:48:05 EDT 2001
"David Simmons" <pulsar at qks.com> wrote in messagenews:Pk8G6.23922$Jh5.23242637 at news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com...> "Andrew Hunt" <andy at toolshed.com> wrote in message> news:slrn9ehfbt.frk.andy at workbench.toolshed.com...> > > Out of the dirth of scripting languages available,> > > Python and PHP are at the top of our well-known candidate list. There> are> > > parties who have either expressed an interest in or are working on> languages> > > such as Scheme, JScript, and Basic.> >> > Have you taken a look at Ruby?>> Yes, I have indeed. I've known about Ruby and monitored it for a couple of> years now. I have the Ruby book and I've watched its attention rise andthen> fall relatively quickly.Updating my earlier post now that I've gone and re-examined their site,events, and newsgroup.---Hmmm... Maybe it just has seasonal lulls.There Tampa conference this fall will be an interesting indicator. I havethe distinct impression that a large if not dominant portion of the userbase is in Japan. I wonder why their conferenced wasn't held there?> Its newsgroup/discussion lists are pretty dardn> quiet and the website is not particularly active -- maybe I've just notbeen> monitoring the right areas?I just went a renewed my link to its newsgroup and I see it has quite a lotof activity in recent weeks. My news service is not archiving more than amonth or so on this group so I can't see further back.I also notice a number of familiar folks posting in their group...>> >> > It's remarkably clean, dynamic, fully OO, and open source. I find I can> > wrote more code in Ruby faster, and with fewer errors, than any other> > language I know (and I've tried quite a few).>> That's high praise indeed.>> SmallScript is itself a complete and rich language, which I not so humbly> will suggest to you exceeds the facilities and ease of use of Ruby.>> But truth to tell that is not the real issue in selecting the scripting> languages on the above list. The principal criteria are first and foremost> popularity (user-base and depth/breadth of the frameworks/codebase) and> second the clarity and capacity of the language. Perl would have been onthe> list but, given a choice, it didn't meet my second criteria.>> >> > For more info, try:> >> > www.ruby-lang.org> >> > and> >> > www.rubycentral.com> >> >> > Enjoy!>> Cheers!>> -- Dave S.>> >> > --> > Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.> > Innovative Object-Oriented Software Development> > web:http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com email:>andy at pragmaticprogrammer.com> > --> > Books by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas:> > "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Addison-Wesley 2000)> > "Programming Ruby" (Addison-Wesley 2001)> > -->>
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