Re: Python vs. Ruby - Herodes - com.googlegroups.sketchupruby

10 messages in com.googlegroups.sketchuprubyRe: Python vs. Ruby

From	Sent On	Attachments
Dr. YSG	25 Jul 2007 09:59
tomot	25 Jul 2007 12:45
Todd Burch - Katy, Texas	25 Jul 2007 15:33
tomot	25 Jul 2007 19:24
Herodes	27 Jul 2007 00:22
tomot	27 Jul 2007 12:43
Herodes	28 Jul 2007 00:55
tomot	28 Jul 2007 16:04
Dr. YSG	29 Jul 2007 17:27
RH2	06 Aug 2007 13:53

Subject:	Re: Python vs. Ruby
From:	Herodes (pets...@gmail.com)
Date:	07/27/2007 12:22:19 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.sketchupruby

I am sorry but I'd rather see Lua doing the Ruby part in Sketchup. It is a language that is easy as a snap to embed in applications and can be learned from basically anyone. I regret that I don't have time to convince you any further but I can tell you it is an amazing language. Look for it ;)

On Jul 25, 7:59 pm, Dr. YSG wrote:

Please don't get me wrong, I don't have a dogmatic viewpoint on this, and religous wars about languages bore me, I am a practical engineer.

But I wonder if Google would consider supplementing the Ruby embedded engine with Python.

a. I find Python syntactically much more mathematical and symetric (smaller brain footprint)

b. The documentation (especially of the libraries) is much more complete

c. Ruby (the framework) seems more developed for web work, and Python for embedded and system work (also a much better socket and networking system, which is really key for getting Sketchup to work with other programs, which seems to be the key idea with an embedded API).