From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T07:39:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs. Ruby (Re: A concise description of Ruby?)

Eivind Eklund ha scritto:


> 
> Counter examples are (somewhat) welcome ;-)
> 

I know some, the points I remember are:

- @vars sux
- $vars too
- why should I write 'end'??
- functions should be objects and __call__ is cool (the function 
aplication operator, () )
- multiple inheritance is a good thing
- __nonzero__ is sometimes useful (#to_bool for rubyists )
- blocks are useless
- python's metaclasses are great
- list comprehensions are far better than map() and the likes
- hey, writing self is good, you can name it cls or ignore it when non 
writing instance methods
- having separated concepts for statements and expressions is useful 
(just heard once)
- callcc is the devil
- TIMTOWTDI is a wrong concept
- general dislike of %stuff literals
- lack of named arguments
- docstrings are cool


note that not all of them think all this, I just summed all the 
different critics.

But I think they just had a quick look at ruby, not a deep one, and they 
usually agree that in the end there are far more similarities than 
differences.