From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-03-20T09:35:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Strong advantages over Python

il Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:59:03 +1100, Greg McIntyre <greg@puyo.cjb.net>
ha scritto::

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>> I still can't find a good comparison with Python that is not
>> superficial.  Sure, Ruby might be better designed, but how does
>> this affect you in practice?  Can you give an example of something
>> that can be done in Ruby that would not be so easy in Python?

just my 2 cents:

- Iterators
	you can totally abstract your logic from the inner knowledge 
	of a class. I think this is so good that they imported it 
	in 2.3 :-)

- Complete OO
	ok, you may say: why do I need it?
	and I say...

- (Coherent +Simple) Language
	in python you see someway obj.method and someway met(obj)
	and in the past you had differences beetween types
	and classes, you need to write an __add__ method to have "+"
	, I see __methods__ anywhere and so on. 
	Actually I even dislike literals in ruby, I admit it.
	
- POLS+Syntax sugar
	when prototyping with one of those language, you'll love
	them, if you need to remember how to do one thing you may even
	write directly the code in ADA. You're at the High Level ain't
	you?

But, anyway, you know, every language will fall into 
The Big Language Crash, when every language would be multiparadigmish,
OO, interpreted, VM'ed, dinamically typed, with lambda and
cotinuations and substantially based on Hashes, and you would have
translators from  MyLang to Lingo++ that would simply change the #!
line in the script file ^_^