From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-02T02:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: deciding between ruby and python

Ville Vainio wrote:
> I would like to suggest people take a look at a quite independent
> comparison page at:
> 
> http://userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RubyPython
> 
> Instead of the ancient page, comparing ancient version of ruby with an
> ancient version of Python that Ruby people like to refer people to.

I'm prepared to admit you are right, since I don't know Python.

But the first thing that struck me on this page was:

   file, length, name, title = [' '.join(t.split()) for t in
   line.split('|')]

This seems neither OO nor functional style to me. What do you think?


Hal