[ruby-talk:00938] Re: Python complaints

In message "[ruby-talk:00937] Re: Python complaints"
    on 99/11/25, William Park <[e-mail]> writes:

|Perhaps, because Ruby still reminds them too much of Perl?  One main
|reason I prefer Python over Perl is that Python's code is easier on the
|fingers and the eyes (ie. no quoting hell to go through).  With Perl, I
|spend too much effort looking at the syntax, because there are too many
|different ways of expressing one idea; whereas with Python, I spend time
|looking at the overall "flow", because there are very few ways of
|expressing that same idea.

I'm not sure whether Ruby has same quoting hell, but we feel Ruby
scripts are far more readable than Perl ones.  I even feel they are
more readable than Python programs.  YMMV, of cource. :-)

|But, I am still trying to grasp Ruby...  I wish there was better
|documentation in English.  Maybe, if I learn Ruby, I'll write short
|introduction.

I was not born in English speaking country.  That really is
unfortunate for Ruby.  Feel free to ask any questions you have here.
I'll try to answer.
                                                        matz.