What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

I'm realizing I didn't frame my question well.

What's ***TOTALLY COMPELLING*** about Ruby over Python? What makes you jump
up in your chair and scream "Wow! Ruby has *that*? That is SO FRICKIN'
COOL!!! ***MAN*** that would save me a buttload of work and make my life
sooooo much easier!"

As opposed to minor differences of this feature here, that feature there.
Variations on style are of no interest to me. I'm coming at this from a C++
background where even C# looks like an improvement. ;-) From 10,000 miles
up, is there anything about Ruby that's a "big deal" compared to Python?

One person mentioned Japanese documentation. I'm sure that's Totally Kewl
to the Japanese....

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Cheers, www.3DProgrammer.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 03:34:02 +0300, I said:

Ten Years track

and I meant Ten Years AFTER.
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TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Microsoft Security Alert: the Matrix began as open source.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:47:40 +0200, rumours say that Bruno Desthuilliers
<bd***********@removeme.free.fr> might have written:

Just imagine what will happen when every
clp regulars will be in Brandon's kill file...

"Where is everybody?"
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TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Microsoft Security Alert: the Matrix began as open source.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:47:40 +0200, rumours say that Bruno Desthuilliers
<bd***********@removeme.free.fr> might have written:

Just imagine what will happen when every
clp regulars will be in Brandon's kill file...

"Where is everybody?"
--
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Microsoft Security Alert: the Matrix began as open source.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:51:09 -0800, rumours say that "Arnaldo Riquelme"
<aj*@dynacap.com> might have written:

Bottom line is that people that uses Python have a better sex life than
those that use other languages.

OK, who added viagra.py in the standard library? :)
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TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Microsoft Security Alert: the Matrix began as open source.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:51:09 -0800, rumours say that "Arnaldo Riquelme"
<aj*@dynacap.com> might have written:

Bottom line is that people that uses Python have a better sex life than
those that use other languages.

OK, who added viagra.py in the standard library? :)
--
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
Microsoft Security Alert: the Matrix began as open source.