From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T05:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: deciding between ruby and python

On Apr 2, 2004, at 08:19, Ville Vainio wrote:

> From a purely technical standpoint, there are virtues in having a
> pre-existing code base that is individually maintained. Ruby people
> would only need to maintain the patches that provide blocks, extra
> methods and 'end'.

Hmmm... you're missing the two things that completely turned me off of 
Python (and eventually led me to Ruby): gratuitous use of underscores 
and passing self everywhere. The former might be fairly easy to patch 
out of the language, but from my limited understanding, I think the 
latter is rather deeply embedded in the semantics of the language. I 
doubt it's as simple as marking instance variables with an '@' sign.


Nathaniel
Terralien, Inc.

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