Python vs. Ruby

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:43:35 -0800, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:

>In article <3759308d.0301011401.4b32deba at posting.google.com>,
> rpgnmets at aol.com (Rob Renaud) wrote:
>
>> So then the question becomes, why don't append(), sort(), reverse()
>> return a new list and not modify the original?  Are mutable objects
>> themselves a wart on the langauge?
>
>There is a level of purity beyond which a language can become a pretty 
>toy instead of a useful tool.
>
To the pure, everything, properly described, is pure ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter