Ruby vs Python (was: Re: [YLUG] I.T. consultancies/software houses in York area?)

[Simon Ward]

Robert Hulme wrote:

> C# ! Eek ;-) (my work time is split 50:50 Ruby and C#)
   Actually, I rather like it (gets coat ...)

> I suppose it depends what you're doing but C# is so verbose ... I am
> so much more productive in Ruby.
   Likewise with me and Python/Perl.
   I'm warming to C# as a language but yes, the verbosity is bloody 
annoying after having spent the last 4 years hacking Python and C almost 
exclusively. I certainly prefer C# to C++ for some odd reason.

   Myself and a former colleague are working on porting some of the 
Python development tools I wrote to run natively under Windows rather 
than having to faff around with Cygwin and whatnot and we're using 
IronPython for prototyping and writing extensions in C# where necessary 
- this process is surprisingly painless. Or, as we like to say, C# draws 
its inspiration from Java and C++ and incorporates the worst features of 
both ...

   For my next trick, I plan to port my distributed computation 
framework to C# :-)

Simon