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On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:37 PM, John List  wrote:

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> 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

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