[Leaf-devel] Ruby

[David Douthitt]

On 15 Jan 2001, at 22:25, Donovan Baarda wrote:

> One quick question... how big is Ruby compared to Python?

Last time I looked at a Ruby executable (1.4.5?) it was about 450K.

> What is the advantage of using Ruby over Python? 

That was a LOOOOONG discussion on the Ruby list a while back; from 
what I know about Python (not much) there are at least TWO things:

1) TRUE free-format code - no messing around with tabs or indentation!
2) TRUE Object-Orientation - EVERYTHING is an object.