From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T22:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby language capabilities

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:46:30AM +0900, Peter I. Hansen wrote:
> I just read this document, and I think time is spent better reading 
> tutorials for the respective languages.
> 
> It starts out very biased towards Ruby. Then Ruby is almost declared 
> non-OO because you can't do "string".print ...
> This is not how I wan't an OO language to behave (Just as I don't x.sin 
> instead of sin(x) ).

What's worse is that the document seeks to discover which is the
"better" of the two languages, often using terms like "the winner" for a
particular category.  This is not appopriate for a comparison of two
languages.

I am not a Python expert, though I do have some experience writing
Python code.  When I first started with Python, I tried writing Python
code the way I would write Ruby code.  This turned out to be a futile
attempt, since Python has a very different philosophy from Ruby.  Things
that I might do one way in Ruby are done completely differently in
Python.  Both languages are very powerful and complex, and a 16-page
comparison is not going to do justice to either language.

Paul