python-list : Message: Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python?

In article <c60a5a12.0308201816.22f4c9c7@...>,
smarter_than_you wrote:

> The real question here is, why haven't we all but Brandon in OUR killfiles?

Brandon's not very interesting (or only as interesting as the spectacle of
someone behaving badly usually is), but some of the replies are.

Dave Cook
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In article <c60a5a12.0308201816.22f4c9c7@...>, ... Brandon's not very interesting (or only as interesting as the spectacle of someone behaving...

David M. Cook
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Aug 21, 2003
4:19 am

... When there's a stinging insect flying around the room, I like to be able to see it. Also, his perspective is so different from mine, I find it useful to be...

Nick Vargish
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Aug 21, 2003
4:42 am

Jeffrey P Shell wrote: [an excellent, lengthy article contrasting Python and Ruby] Article saved permanently. This is the only good thing to come out of this...

Peter Hansen
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Aug 21, 2003
3:49 pm

... I agree. It would have taken weeks for me to figure out all of that on my own. Get that great article posted in your weblog. I'll note that "foo.sort"...

Shane Hathaway
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Aug 22, 2003
6:48 am

... I think for many people, it all boils down to this. Whoever hates Perl will find Python more interesting. Whoever loves Perl, or uses/has used Perl, will...

David Garamond
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Aug 22, 2003
2:00 am

... An excellent answer and a great read, Jeffrey. Thanks. -- Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list...

Graham Fawcett
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Aug 22, 2003
3:48 am

... Yes, you're right! Missed that one in the noise... -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list...

Peter Hansen
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Aug 22, 2003
3:51 am

... What if you had your editor expand '@' into 'self.'? (Not something I would do.) And how many Ruby threads are lost for people complaining about having to...

Andrew Dalke
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Aug 22, 2003
5:57 am

... Not quite true. Nearly, but not quite. Jeremy Dillworth's post is also worth a read - ...

Simon Brunning
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Aug 22, 2003
7:08 am

A nice feature of Ruby is that exceptions are resumable like in Smalltalk, ie. you can have a "retry" statement in your exception handling that allows you to...

Nils Kassube
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Aug 22, 2003
1:08 pm

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:22:01 -0400, rumours say that "John Roth" ... You can do similar things in Python, just wrap your collection in a class. Check this...