From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T09:59:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs. Ruby (Re: A concise description of Ruby?)

Joao Pedrosa ha scritto:

> This remindes me of capitalization issues. Ruby is clearer:
> - methods and variables names start with a lower case character
> - classes and modules start with an upper case character.

just a note on this:
we have Kernel.Float(astring) (and Integer and others).
Yeah, they are ugly imo.




>>note that not all of them think all this, I just summed all the
>>different critics.
> 
> 
> Thanks for them. It's hard to know exactly from where to start when
> comparing the two. But they aren't interchangeable. I can't use Python
> with the fluidity that is possible with Ruby.
> 

me neither, and I really feel that I'd choose ruby everyday of my life :)

>>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.
> 
> 
> It's hard to study both languages deep enough to make a fair
> comparision. The best comparision may be with examples.
> 

Actually, I just replied to point out that the pleac project at 
http://pleac.sf.net is an effort to reproduce the perl cookbook examples 
in many languages.

Quite expected, python and ruby are the most complete efforts as of now.

Less expected, our 61,57% of completion just got over python's 61.14%, 
prepare the party for when we reach 100% :D