From: "pauldacus@..." <pauldacus@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T00:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy)

I actually recently tried to pick up Python, by reading 'Dive Into
Python', which got quite good reviews on Amazon.  And I did this mainly
because Ruby is so easy, I thought maybe my brain is getting flabby.
Ruby is Easy.  Almost too easy.  Long story short, after trying to
learn Python syntax, I found that it was not for me.  I was putting in
a lot of effort (perhaps the point of it all), with little return.
Stuff that 'just works' in Ruby seems to take a lot of unnecessary
effort elsewhere.  Ruby seems to have been written to ease the burden
off the programmer, and almost every other language doesn't (in
comparison).  SImilar effort put into Python, or God forbid, VB (or
whatever it's called now), yields so much less.  Perl is a little too
messy, Python not messy enough... Ruby is just right.  It seems to know
what my brain wants in a programming language.