From: Marcus Sharp <brothermarcus@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T02:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby

*putting on flame retardant pants*

As a noob to Ruby who was convinced to try it after reading why's
wonderful work, i will say that i find Ruby "harder" than Python.  To
call Python a "joke of a language" is pretty harsh by the way.   It is
taking me much, much longer to work my way through the PickAxe book
than it did Learning Python.  In just a few days of that book, I wrote
fully functional (albeit very tiny) applications that did what I
needed them to do.  As well, at the time, the Python community was
helpful to the noob. Of course, Python doesn't have why, so it loses
on that aspect.  :)

I did go and find a used copy of Learn Ruby in 21 Days and it does
seem to be a bit easier to get through so far, but the Ruby syntax is
a bit more work for me whereas in Python I feel like I'm writing
pseudo code that actually works.  But that's just me, your average
newbie (or maybe to you I'm an  idiot) , and it of course in no way
reflects on the writings mentioned, nor the language.  And I do intend
to get through the Ruby books eventually....