From: "maillist@..." <maillist@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T18:10:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

I got sick of indents, its a pain when copying and pasting code... but
real programmers never do that....

I loved ruby OO EVERYTHING is an object 

Loved the iterators [1,2,3,4].each{|e| do_somthing(e) }

Sockets are nice and easy. Python is hardly and abstraction above the C
api for sockets.

Ruby C(++) extensions are A LOT nicer than python.

Ruby built in regex are nice ie. "abc" =~ /b/
/b/ is an object!

Ruby is much faster for quick throw away scripts.

Ruby has lots of the perl features without all the cr** such as $_,$1,$2
...

Threads are easy to implement.

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:03, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> This question is only meant to apply to people who used to use Python, but
> switched to Ruby.  Why did you do so?
> 
> Motive for my question: I am language / platform shopping and comparing the
> pros and cons of Python, C#, and anything that comes up on the radar in the
> course of it.  A lot of people who know about Python seem to know about
> Ruby.  Someone in comp.lang.python suggested that I should ask this
> particular question here to get more complete opinions.  The c.l.p people
> are mostly happy with Python and see few if any advantages to Ruby, although
> there is some discussion and dissention.