What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Roth wrote:
> "Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:bhq501$a98$1 at slb6.atl.mindspring.net...
>
>> How many Ruby programmers (per capita) do you know talking about
>> Python?  Perhaps Python "has the potential to ...display Ruby"
>
> You might try getting onto some other newsgroups and mailing
> lists that deal with more general (not language specific) issues and
> find out exactly what people are saying. On the XP mailing lists
> my general impression is that the Ruby programmers outnumber
> the Python programmers, and a fair number of them came from
> a Python background.

Interesting anecdote and exercise suggestion.  I will undertake it.  For
instance, what if Windows tools support is better under Ruby than Python?
That's a hypothetical, I have no idea.

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