From: Travis Whitton <whitton@...>
Date: 2003-03-20T14:16:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Strong advantages over Python

There are a lot more than this, but these are just a few things that spring
to mind:

o Super easy to extend with C modules
o The power of mixing in Enumerable
o Simplicity of mixins vs multiple inheritance
o A builtin class library small enough to memorize but powerful enough to
  do basically anything you want
o Total syntactic consistency(everything is an object)
  5.times {|num| ...}
  "foo".reverse
o Stronger typing(everything has a specific type)
  1.type => Fixnum
o Truly private data instead of name mangling
o No equivalent of a do ... while statement
o self.myvar vs @myvar
o No closures in Python?

I'm not a Python expert, so forgive me if anything above is incorrect.

Hope this helps,
Travis Whitton