Bruce Eckel welcomes the departure of the hyper-enthusiasts from Java to (he thinks) Ruby, so everyone can go back to work again.

Contrary to most of the language flamefests recently (did I say “recently”?), Bruce writes a very balanced piece, compares the state of affairs in various languages and frameworks (as far as he knows it), and ends up looking for someone who moved from Python to Ruby for sound, objective reasons. I personally guess that he’ll be hard-pressed to find one–my personal reason that I haven’t learned Ruby yet is that every time I looked at it, it simply didn’t offer enough over Python. Some pluses (more language features), some minuses (more cluttered syntax), and if you squint your eyes, it’s roughly in the same ballpark.

Nice read about programming languages. For a change

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