What's better about Ruby than Python?

[John Wilson]

Alex Martelli wrote:

>  Me, I think immutable strings are
> an excellent idea (and I'm not surprised that Java, independently
> I think, reinvented that idea which was already in Python),

Gosling claims that Java contains no new ideas. I have heard him say that
every feature of Java is in at least two other programming languages. Java
takes many things from CLU (including immutable strings). CLU looks to be an
influence on Python too.

John Wilson
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