From: Jeff Wood Date: 2005-12-21T07:31:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel and Ruby ------=_Part_7817_8364424.1135117879149 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Come on folks ... Python is "different" ... it implements objects, has a number of nice reflection things, dynamic binding, and more ... It's got it's own syntax ... and that hasn't changed ... they do things their way ( again "different" ). ... beyond that, the real differences were already listed off in a VERY goo= d post ... To me ( and yes I've used both and built real tools with both ) ... the mai= n difference that works the way I think is that ruby has blocks ... Python has lambdas, but they don't compare... that to me is the big difference... everything else is sugar/fluff. If you think the python way , then everything is happy in Python ville. If you think the ruby way, then rubyopolis is your happy place... That's all the end ... at least they are BOTH taking away from the Perl community & the other static/compiled languages out there ... ... I respect them for being who they are and building a tool that has made an impact on the community ( RedHat's install tool, OpenOffice using it as = a macro language, etc. ).... ... Ruby will eventually win it's larger battles too. The reason we haven'= t is because we are all happy enough with our choice to use Ruby that we are just getting our work done, not fighting wars. Anyways, just my $0.02. j. -- "Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! -> http://ruby-lang.org" Jeff Wood ------=_Part_7817_8364424.1135117879149--