From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-03-20T12:15:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Strong advantages over Python


"Greg McIntyre" <greg@puyo.cjb.net> wrote in message
news:20030320105903.0ea6f349.greg@puyo.cjb.net...

> > 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?

IMHO the Object Orientation in Ruby is better than Python.

Also, writing cross platform multi-threaded applications in Ruby is much,
much
easier ... and this is not my "opinion". Take, for instance, the 20-odd
lines code
fragment from Chapter 11 , Threads & Processes, Page 113 of the Pickaxe book
which downloads a set of Web pages in parallel. Now try to write this in
Python.
See for yourself which is easier to understand and follow.

(I owe an year-long project to that code fragment ... thanks to Matz,
Dave,Andy).

Let us know what you experience.

-- shanko