What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python?

Arnaldo Riquelme ajr at dynacap.com
Mon Aug 18 18:51:09 EDT 2003


Bottom line is that people that uses Python have a better sex life than
those that use other languages.
That is ***TOTALLY COMPELLING***  enough for me to use Python.

--ajr




> I'm realizing I didn't frame my question well.
>
> What's ***TOTALLY COMPELLING*** about Ruby over Python?  What makes you
jump
> up in your chair and scream "Wow!  Ruby has *that*?  That is SO FRICKIN'
> COOL!!!  ***MAN*** that would save me a buttload of work and make my life
> sooooo much easier!"
>
> As opposed to minor differences of this feature here, that feature there.
> Variations on style are of no interest to me.  I'm coming at this from a
C++
> background where even C# looks like an improvement.  ;-)  From 10,000
miles
> up, is there anything about Ruby that's a "big deal" compared to Python?
>
> One person mentioned Japanese documentation.  I'm sure that's Totally Kewl
> to the Japanese....
>
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>
> 20% of the world is real.
> 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.
>






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