From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T05:09:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

I think we have communicated very well; I agree with all you said.  May I
know what features that you value Python over Ruby?  (I am not starting a
war between Python and Ruby; I just want to know what features that I may
be missing and whether it can be reproduced rather easily in Ruby
through secondary constructs.  So far, I just miss the 
"minimalism" feature of Python and all those libraries...)

Regards,

Bill
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paul@prescod.net wrote:
> But if you use the double-underscores accidental misuse is as impossible
> as in a language with a "private" keyword.

> You could argue that Python's default encourages an "open" model rather
> than a closed one and that this will lead novices in the wrong direction.
> That's fair enough as long as we understand that it is different than
> saying that Python does not have built-in information hiding.

>> By the way, since it seems that you know so much about Python and there
>> seems to be some positive bias towards Python, may I know the reason you
>> are following this discussion group (to take the good ideas from Ruby to
>> be applied in Python, maybe, just like the iterators :) )?  I have left
>> the Python discussion group since I switched to Ruby.

> I think that there are good ideas in Ruby worth understanding. If I were
> ever given a job that involved Ruby I would be happier than in almost any
> other language. But when I choose the language I do value features that
> Python has over Ruby.

>  Paul Prescod