From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T22:26:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Bruce Eckel wouldn't know why to switch from Python to Ruby

cyberco wrote on 12/20/2005 10:57 AM:

> To quote him:

> "The person I want to hear from is the core Python expert, someone who

ruby has one thing going for it that python doesn't: ruby's oo doesn't
seem 'tacked on' like it does in python.

a newbie trying to choose between ruby and python (with oo being their
main priority) has an easy choice: ruby, because it's oo from the
ground up...

as for a switch, i seriously doubt any 'core python expert' will even
touch ruby. and by placing that as a requirement he has cemented his
belief that he won't be convinced...

i found that one of the first things a python programmer will ask when
you mention ruby is "does it have tuples? does it have dictionaries?"
as if programming efficiently required them.

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