The next stage is to drop the complexities of Java and C# and do it all
in scripting languages like Python which allow easier, faster and cheaper
software development. Microsoft are already doing this with the .Net version
of Visual Basic and it is on its way for Java with projects like Jython.
 - Nicholas Blachford, osnews.com, 2004
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Later that night I got to ask Ruby's creator, Mats, whether Ruby was
more like Python or more like Perl, while Larry Wall was standing next
to us. Mats responded that it was more like Perl, adding that Larry was
his hero. - Guido Van Rossum, Python language creator, January 2004
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...sometimes when programming in Python I wish Python had a feature
or syntax found in Lisp, but then I code around it and remember why
I am using Python in the first place. - Jeff Sandys, May 2004
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The reward for your efforts [learning Lisp] will be an equivocal one: you
will feel as suffocated programming in C++ as an experienced C++ programmer
would feel programming in Basic. - Paul Graham, ANSI Common Lisp, 1995
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Adding things just because you can leads to monstrosities like Common LISP,
PL/I, Algol 68 and Perl 6. Adding features only when they add functionality
(or better yet, by removing restrictions) leads to jewels like Python,
Scheme and Eiffel. - Mike Meyer, comp.lang.python, April 2005
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I think of SQL in your application like fire on a cold night. It keeps
me warm, sure, and I shouldn't douse it with water because I'm afraid of
getting burned. I might freeze. That doesn't mean I stick my hand into
the open flame. - Glyph Lefkowitz, November 2005
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The expression of coroutines in Ruby (at least, according to Tate's
example) is awkward, but they are there, and I suspect that this may be
why coroutines - albeit in a much more elegant form - are appearing in
Python 2.5. - Bruce Eckel, December 2005
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One of the basic tenets of the Python language has been that code should
be simple and clear to express and to read, and Ruby has followed this
idea, although not as far as Python has because of the inherited Perlisms.
 - Bruce Eckel, December 2005
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I have not heard of any of the rather significant core of Python language
and library developers saying "hey, this Ruby thing really solves a lot
of problems we've been having in Python, I'm going over there." Instead,
they write PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) and morph the language to
incorporate the good features. - Bruce Eckel, December 2005
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You can monkeypatch code in Python pretty easily, but we look down
on it enough that we call it "monkeypatching". In Ruby they call it
"opening a class" and think it's a cool feature. I will assert: we
are right, they are wrong. - Ian Bicking, December 2005
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The hype surrounding Ruby and Rails is very strong at the moment. Python,
on the contrary, has a more understated attitude: never in fashion, never
out of fashion but always useful and powerful, almost a secret weapon.
 - Manuel on O'Reilly Radar, March 2007
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We're seeing a realization that 20 years into the experiment, strict OO
design is not the be-all and end-all of complexity management. Functional
programming probably isn't either. The hybrids (Python, Ruby, JavaScript,
etc.) seem to have real legs these days. - Alex Russell, August 2006
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I tried Ruby on Rails, knowing no Ruby, and got pretty far, but very
frustrated. I tried Django, knowing no Python, and got most places
I wanted to get. Django++. - Bradley Whittington, August 2006
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M.P.: Su Mongrel e Ruby on Rails ho letto cose pazzesche. Cosa ci si deve
 inventare per rimediare ad un application server con prestazioni penose..
R.d.I.: Lasciamo stare, sono anni che mi rovino il sonno co sta roba...
 - Febbraio 2008
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The term [monkeypatching] first arose in the Python community, as a
derogatory term for a practice which that community tended to frown on.
The Ruby community, on the other hand, has embraced the term and the
practice with enthusiasm. I'm starting to think that the Pythonistas'
attitude may have been justified. - Avdi Grimm, February 2008
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I also still haven't figured out why the fuck I was backing Ruby when the
Python guys clearly did a way better job at building their community and
infrastructure. I kind of feel like I backed the wrong horse completely.
 - Zed Shaw, Mongrel author, March 2008
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If Twisted Matrix was implemented in Ruby it would be advertised
as the second coming of Christ. - Antonio Cangiano, March 2008
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I don't know what you mean about languages aging fast. COBOL
has been around almost 50 years now. C is over 35 years old.
C++ is almost 30 years old. Perl over 20. Python is 17 years
old. Even Ruby is 15 years old. - Jay Cutcher, September 2008
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Ruby is a beautiful language and it's changing the world. I just hope it
isn't here to stay, because I don't want to be debugging legacy Ruby apps
ten years from now. My brain already hurts. - Justin Bailey, October 2008
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Perl has been rightly called "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw". Java might
be compared to the equipment owned by a construction company. C would
be a scientific scalpel, molecular sharp. It is my suggestion that
Python is a lightsabre, and wielding it well makes a graceful
foundation for usability. - http://jonathanscorner.com/python/