From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T07:51:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby

On Feb 14, 2005, at 7:10 PM, James G. Britt wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:39:08 +0900, Marcus Sharp
> <brothermarcus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> *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 not merely harsh; it is incorrect.  Most people here prefer Ruby
> to Python, but don't simply dismiss Python either.

/me notes that he's writing a ruby parser using python's pyggy library
its a nice and easy language, just that ruby's blocks ain't complex, new
programs follow easy rules ("stick {} around the block"), and list 
comprehensions required an explanation for me. and i'm not exactly a 
newbie programmer. ruby's blocks just clicked, no tutorial needed, i 
grabbed the stdlib read the syntax files typed in a few examples from 
programming ruby and haven't stopped reading ri since.

Alex