From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T13:13:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

Woah! Thread-ahoy. Sorry if I'm duplicating content here:

Robert Hicks wrote:

>I don't think he has "doubts" about someone switching. He wants to see
>a detailed comparison between the two from someone who knows. I read
>his piece and aside from Rails he wants to know "why Ruby?"
>  
>
His piece comes off as nothing but vitriol, ad hominem, and rhetoric to 
me. I choose not to get involved in the conversation. Other people 
reacted differently, it seems.

Nonetheless, the Python vs Ruby question comes up a lot, and is somewhat 
legitimate. I only played with Python for a little over a week. Here's 
my (very) rough opinion:
- Ruby feels more object-oriented to me. Doing things the 
object-oriented way was *extremely* easy. Everything is object.method 
syntax (or, even cooler, delegated to a method, like the for...in syntax).
- There's no extra code for packaging up code into a library, and no 
conceptual overhead for method/class extraction.
- No frickin' __underscores__!
- It's hooks for dynamic classivity make more sense to me.

Of course, this is pretty much all personal.

Devin