From: William Webber <wew@...>
Date: 2003-08-19T18:12:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Why did you switch from Python to Ruby?

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:03:15PM +0900, 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?

Closures + iterators + blocks.

Being a scheme/lisp fan, every time I had to create
temporary array to store the results of looping over another
in Python, I felt a bit nauseous.  (Perhaps there's a better
way of doing this is more recent Python versions, but I
didn't know about it.)  So I set out to find a language that
was Python-like but supported proper closures and lambda
functions.  I'd only heard the name Ruby, but I thought it
might have these features -- and it did!

William