From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T01:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy)


Tolga wrote:
> First of all and very first of all, I must state that I am not an enemy
> or a spy :-D
>

I don't have much to add, you can google for 750 k hits for "ruby vs
python" and read what people have written on c2.com and artima.com
"your interpreter/VM/lang spec/dev environment is strap-on OO, pass by
reference, weakly typed, weakly lexically scoped, inconsistent API,
writing C extensions sucks and it's slow"

Alex Martelli wrote this, which i think is the best summary to date
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/40d8d11e12cb00ba/ac369f0960495acd?q=martelli+%22python+vs.+ruby%22&rnum=1#ac369f0960495acd

And, just as an observation, i find myself regularly downloading stuff
from CPAN and either rewriting chunks in ruby, or running perl.
Neither python or ruby has anything of that magnitude. (Even after 10+
years of on and off perl use, I find it difficult to read the O-O
stuff,) but ability to read perl will serve you well.