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Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django?

From Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django?
Date 2013-03-07 09:28 +0000
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rusi wrote:

> Anyone who's used emacs will know this as the bane of FLOSS software
> -- 100 ways of doing something and none perfect -- IOW too much
> spurious choice.


This is a fallacy.  Just because someone claims that "there are 100 ways of 
doing something and none perfect", it doesn't mean that restricting choice 
leads to perfection.  It doesn't.  It only leads to getting stuck with a 
poor solution with no possibility of improving your life by switching to a 
better alternative.  

Worse, a complete lack of alternatives leads to a complete lack of 
competition, and therefore the absense of incentives to work on 
improvements.  You know, progress.

Choice is good.  Don't pretend it isn't.  It's one of the reasons we have 
stuff like Python or Ruby nowadays, for example.


Rui Maciel

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Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 10:03 -0800
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? "marduk@python.net" <marduk@python.net> - 2013-03-06 13:24 -0500
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> - 2013-03-06 10:16 -0900
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-06 23:58 +0000
    Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 17:08 -0800
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2013-03-06 21:13 -0500
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> - 2013-03-06 17:55 -0900
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 18:58 -0800
    Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 22:09 -0800
    Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-03-07 09:28 +0000
      Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Sven <svenito@gmail.com> - 2013-03-07 09:52 +0000
        Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-03-07 10:00 -0800
      Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-03-07 08:20 -0800
        Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-08 03:33 +1100
    Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? "Russell E. Owen" <rowen@uw.edu> - 2013-03-07 13:08 -0800
      Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-03-07 19:46 -0800
    Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-03-07 20:50 -0800
      Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-03-08 08:19 -0800
        Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-03-08 09:12 -0800
      Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-03-08 09:30 -0800
        Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-03-08 13:24 -0800
    Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-08 17:47 +0000
      Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-03-08 20:40 -0800
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-03-06 20:16 -0800
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-03-07 20:43 -0800
  Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> - 2013-03-08 07:35 -0900

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