From: Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T13:36:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Strong advantages over Python

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 17:08, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Please verify these publically before you teach this stuff to these 
> students. [...] I do know for a fact that Python can do some 
> things that you say it cannot. 

Thanks Paul.  Sometimes its easy for those of us who are very familiar
with Ruby to neglect features of a language we are less familiar with.

It sounds to me as if the original poster is looking for a "slam dunk"
for Ruby (compared to Python), and I'm not sure he's going to find one. 
Ruby and Python have far more in common than they have differences. 
What differences there are more more differences in preferences than
real differences in language power.

The truth is that I was on the verge of making a real effort to learn
Python when I read a posting by Dave Thomas (perhaps on the XP mailing
list?) mentioning Ruby.  If it weren't for that fortuitous posting, I
might be a Python advocate today (shudder :-).

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