Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But there are interesting things in Ruby (and Ruby 2 should take care of >lots of warts Ruby 1.8 has) that Python could learn from. All-in-all, >Ruby is mostly as good as Python in most ways and better than Python in >a couple key ways.
...but you can't READ Ruby code. One of the things I like best about Python is that, like Cobol, you can read Python code like prose (or poetry ;) and, for the most part, know what the code does, even without being a Python guru. I have not had the same experience with Ruby. There are special characters in there that make the program say something I can't immediately discern. To be sure, people whose opinions I trust (one of whom is Cliff Wells) have said that Ruby is great, so I suppose I need to look again. I just haven't had the same "aha!" experience that I had with Python. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
