What's better about Ruby than Python?

[John Roth]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:bhq501$a98$1 at slb6.atl.mindspring.net...

> How many Ruby programmers (per capita) do you know talking about
> Python?  Perhaps Python "has the potential to ...display Ruby"

You might try getting onto some other newsgroups and mailing
lists that deal with more general (not language specific) issues and
find out exactly what people are saying. On the XP mailing lists
my general impression is that the Ruby programmers outnumber
the Python programmers, and a fair number of them came from
a Python background.

> How many Python-aware programmers do you know who also talk
> about Java?  Also talk about C#?  About C++?  About BASIC?

Lots. Most of the people on the XP lists use multiple languages,
and are quite vocal about it in the appropriate circumstances.

John Roth