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I’ve been playing with Ruby a bit recently. The big question: is the language better than python ? For me it comes down to a punchup between 2 killer features: Ruby’s blocks vs Python’s whitespace-indent magic.
Ruby’s smalltalk style blocks are ... Continue reading »
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3 years ago
http://mjtsai.com/blog/2002/11/25/perl_vs_pytho...
But personally, after 15 years or so of perl i've migrated to Ruby and i have to say, i am enjoying it.
Perl was fun but got a bit hairy at times.
Ruby is much more well thought out (OO), clean and has some fantastic features like continuations. I also like the fact that it was relatively easy to migrate from Perl. To top it off, the Rails framework adds more fun factor. :)