From: Daniel Nugent <nugend@...>
Date: 2006-02-07T10:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Intros to Python for Rubyists?

Thanks Gene, there's a lot of really good info in there.

On 2/6/06, Gene Tani <gene.tani@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Daniel Nugent wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Don't worry, I'm not jumping ship, I'm just going to have to do a
> > project for a class in Python and I want to give myself as large an
> > advantage as possible.
> >
> > Does anyone have any Python tutorials that explain the foundations of
> > the language in terms of Ruby (perhaps?) or maybe you've got a link to
> > a Python tutorial that you found easy to read coming from Ruby?
> >
>
> For a while last year, everybody was blogging python vs. ruby: graham,
> Fowler, Bicking, Martelli, Eckel, Bray etc.
>
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Comparison_and_Review/
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Ruby/
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRubyCodeExamples
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRuby
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonAndRubyAreConverging
> http://www.rexx.com/~oinkoink/Ruby_v_Python.html
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=141312
>
> http://blog.ianbicking.org/ruby-python-power.html
> http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/PythonAndRuby.rdoc
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyFromPython
>
> http://reflectivesurface.com/weblog/2004/12/19/why-rails
> http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp
> http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CollectionClosureMethod.html
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5915
>
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/27/Ruby
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/305692.html
>
> awaretek.com has 125 python tutorials, and download the free trials of
> wingware and Komodo, as well as the documentation pack you get from
> Activestate.  They make python as painless as possible (which isn't to
> say it'll be completely intuitive).
>
>
>


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-Dan Nugent