From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T07:52:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

Steve Litt ha scritto:

>>Any Python experts here? :)
> 
> 
> I'm nowhere near a Python expert (nor a Ruby one) but I'll tell you 
> one thing -- with Python you can make a private class member only 
> by prepending a double underscore, and there are no protected class 
> members at all. I think the encapsulation is better in Ruby.

OTOH encapsulation may be considered better in python since you can be 
(quite) sure that __methods and class variables won't break when 
redefined by accident in a subclass.

Ruby vs Python is mostly a matter of taste, bith are fine languages, and 
I second Robert Hicks' impression that there were overreactions to 
Eckel's article from some people.