From: Tom Pollard <tomp@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T22:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Nuby transition through "suck" stage??


On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:55 AM, oinkoink wrote:
> Python also was a motivation.  It was a language that looked great
> at first, but grew progressively more annoying as I got into it more
> deeply.  By the end of my Python days, I had come to think of Python
> as the Pascal of scripting languages.  I was delighted to find that
> Ruby did the right thing just about everywhere that Python irked me.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who has felt that way.  I'm  
sure I wouldn't appreciate Ruby nearly as much if I hadn't slogged  
through with Python first.

Tom