What I’d Say If I Were At PyCon
March 23, 2005 – 1:16 pmDave Thomas, of Pragmatic Programmer fame, is working on a new book about RubyOnRails. In my opinion, none of the entry-level Python web programming systems that Michelle Levesque has been studying is book-worthy yet, despite being several years older than RonR. It’s things like this that are going to make Ruby the refuge of choice for refugees from Perl 6. *sigh*
4 Responses to “What I’d Say If I Were At PyCon”
The question I’d ask is why is RonR that much better (seemingly) than any other web framework around?
By Andy Todd on Mar 24, 2005
P.S. My first comment got rejected because I put my URL in the URL field above.
By Andy Todd on Mar 24, 2005
I thought Dave Thomas was “of SCTV” fame.. go figure!
By Tracey on Mar 24, 2005
Why do you sigh at the prospect of having programmers use RonR, when you seem to agree it’s the best one around? Shouldn’t programmers be using the best tool for the job rather than all Python all the time? And if you mean that Python people should develop a similar framework, wouldn’t it be more efficient for those people to contribute to RonR and make it even better than it is, instead?
By the way, I don’t think there are going to be that many Perl 6 refugees. I think Perl is moving in the right direction. 6 is going to be more neat and tidy and fix a lot of what Python people complain about Perl. Also, it will be way faster. I would summarize the upcoming changes to Perl as adding a hint of SML flavour (which is great in small doses).
By Adrian on Apr 1, 2005