Ruby -- A better OO Perl than Perl? Python 3000 features available now?

[david_ullrich at my-deja.com]

In article <8hlssa$r3$1 at nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>,
  aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> In article <8hlrkn$5t2$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <david_ullrich at my-deja.com>
wrote:
> >
> >    Not if they never hear about it. I thought he went out of his
> >way to be polite, to make it clear that he wasn't saying Python
> >bad Ruby good. Sounds to me like something that might be of
> >interest to a lot of Python people.
> >    Maybe it doesn't matter to people who are somehow instantaneously
> >informed of everything, but the rest of us appreciate a little bit
> >of marginally on-topic information. (I first heard about Delphi when
> >I was lurking in a VB group trying to figure out whether it was more
> >awful or less awful than the BASIC I was using at the time...)
>
> Well, Ruby comes up often enough naturally.

     I didn't know that.

> I think the objection
here
> comes from the explicit advertisement combined with the repetition
(this
> isn't the first time).

     Or that - does put a different flavor on it.

     I do think that I first heard about Python on a Perl newsgroup.
(Just a random fact of no direct relevance...)

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