Thanks, Kevin. Yes, quite an interesting post. One of the things I noted was that he states that he still uses Ruby for text processing (whereas I thought that this is one of the functional things that Python excels in). Thus my curiosity was piqued-- "what's the deal" (anyone) with Ruby: is it an interpreted (as opposed to compiled) language? Un- or weakly-typed? Have a "rich" set of built-ins and an even richer set of available modules? More or less widely and broadly used than Python? Generally, as objectively as possible, how is it "better" and "worse" than Python? Thanks!
DG
