How's ruby compare to it older brother python

[John Roth]

"Hunn E. Balsiche" <hunnebal at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> in term of its OO features, syntax consistencies, ease of use, and their
> development progress. I have not use python but heard about it quite
often;
> and ruby, is it mature enough to be use for developing serious
application,
> e.g web application as it has not many features in it yet.

As another poster has mentioned, Ruby is more closely related
to Perl than to Python. While I don't use it, people I respect who
have moved to Ruby say it has a couple of real killer features;
in particular the way blocks and the pervasive use of the visitor
pattern come together change the way one writes programs for
the better.

As far as syntax is concerned, there doesn't seem to be a
huge amount of difference. Syntax is syntax, and every language
has it's little pecularities.

I haven't seen enough of it to make me want to learn it, but it's
on my list of languages to play with sometime.

John Roth

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