From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T03:17:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Python/OO developer

The syntax becomes quite natural, what is difficult is keeping perl,
python, tcl and ruby straight.  Also, the language hasn't gone through
substantial overhauls like python 2.2 and perl 5.6, just new libraries
and incremental improvements (ok, a lot of them):

http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/rubyOneEightOh.html

(read _why_'s "Upturned Bin" and the Metaclass article while you're
over there.

>
> Interesting to here, that there are developers which converted from
> python to ruby. The syntax looks a little bit scaring to me. In this