From: rcena@... (Resty Cena)
Date: 2001-11-02T00:38:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24088] Re: Ruby and Python: a fuzzy question

Sean Russell <ser@efn.org> wrote in message news:<3bd971ab_2@news.newsgroups.com>...
> 
> My dirty little Python secret?  I couldn't get past the naming scheme of 
> "__init__".  :-}
> 
I, too, couldn't get past this convention. It's the double underscore
notation. I couldn't help feel that I am looking at the "innards" of
the language, which view I'm trying to avoid at all costs. At other
times they look to me like those construction scaffoldings around
buildings, evidence of something unfinished. It didn't take me long to
decide I'd rather program in Ruby.

Still, I haven't done much programming in Ruby. I'm a database
application developer, and the next thing I do after "Hello, World" is
a mailing list. If a language does not have good support for database
access, commercial/business programming has little use for it. How's
RubyDBI coming along?

Since this is a thread on what one likes about a programming language,
I am very much taken by the new kid on the block: Curl. What do you
think of Curl?

rmc