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Re: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
For those of us completely ignorant to the ways of Ruby: Why?

I'm interested in a "Ruby is good at A, B and C but it is bad at X, Y and Z", not in starting a flame war.
I was kidding

Ruby is equivalent to Python in terms that it is great at small programs, algorithms, and the such (and I like Rails), but I would never use it for a full application, let alone a robot.
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