# The Seattle Brigade Chats with Bruce Eckel

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-seattle-brigade-chats-with-bruce-eckel/97971>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 27, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-seattle-brigade-chats-with-bruce-eckel/97971 "2006-01-27T16:59:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-seattle-brigade-chats-with-bruce-eckel/97971/1 "2006-01-27T16:59:57Z")

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Quite impressive.

[http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146091](http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146091)

–  
James B.

“Blanket statements are over-rated”

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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-seattle-brigade-chats-with-bruce-eckel/97971/2 "2006-02-01T23:00:42Z")

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In defense of Bruce, he was not vehemently against Ruby. He just wanted  
to see an in-depth comparison of Ruby against Python. He admitted not  
looking at Ruby very much.

I suspect the more he looks at Ruby and the more others point out why  
Ruby is great to him, the more he will come to see its value.