From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-05-23T14:14:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02945] Re: What our Python friends are up to.

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02941] Re: What our Python friends are up to."
    on 00/05/23, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp> writes:

||So what will I benefit, if I start to use Ruby instead of Python? What will
||I lose?
|
|You can avoid whitespace woe if you use Ruby.

Here's the quote from my (yet unpublished) article.

  On the Python newsgroup, questions/requests/complains like the
  following have been repeated time to time.

  * I dislike code structuring by indentation.
  * Why Python has no "real" garbage collection?
  * Why there are two distinct data types, list and tuple?
  * Separating types and classes are annoying.  Why all values are not
    class instances?
  * Why no method is available for numbers, tuples, strings?
  * Explicit conversion between small integers and long integer are
    annoying.
  * Maintaining reference count in the extensions is tiresome and
    error prone.

  All of these are already solved in Ruby.  

							matz.