On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:37 PM, John List <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So ... we've been talking about Perl and Python. Does anyone have any > observations on how Ruby fits (or doesn't) into this picture? > -Can it be used for scripting (the original subject)? Yes. Ruby is an effective and concise language that has a good enough filesystem API to be used for scripting. Its syntax is weird to an eye familiar with C-style idioms, and surprisingly formally complex to any eye (it isn't an elegant language with few special cases like Lisp or whatever, it has quite a few oddities), but it is certainly a language that some programmers seem to find friendlier and more natural in many contexts than C, Python or Perl. > -Is it as C-compatible as Python? No idea. I've only ever dealt with Ruby in single-language web applications. Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
