From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2003-11-30T12:05:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Python (IMHO)

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>* Mark J. Reed <markjreed@mail.com> [Nov, 29 2003 20:50]:
>  
>
>>(r"..." is Python for '...', btw: strings without special character
>>sequence processing.  The 'r' stands for "raw" strings.)
>>    
>>
>yeah, isn't it obvious? ;-).  it really stands out well.  this is just
>one example of things that seem to be hacks in Python,
>	nikolai
>
That's not a very good example.  Ruby Q & q strings are just as bad, 
even if they were imports from Perl. 
For that matter Ruby has a simply HUGE number of ways of specifying 
strings.  This isn't usually a problem, but it could be seen as such.  
My real problem with Python is that I simply hate using the amount white 
space as semantically significant.  Ruby has other conveniences.  But on 
the standard run of problems I deal with the difference isn't huge.