What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:15, Alex Martelli wrote:

> > Designing a good language is all about designing the right high level
> > abstractions.  Even a medium skilled designer should be able to design
> > a language that maps better to their specific domain than a general
> 
> I entirely, utterly, totally and completely disagree with this point.
> 
> This is like saying that even a medium skilled musician should be
> able to write music that plays better to their specific audience than
> great music written by a genius who's never personally met any of
> the people in the audience: it's just completely false.  I want to
> use a language designed by a genius, and I want to listen to music
> written by Bach, Haendel, Mozart, and the like.

I was with you until this point.  Your preference for music written by
geniuses only says that you are part of that audience for that type of
music; it says nothing about whether Mozart would play well to the
audience in a mosh pit.  I don't think it invalidates your point about
programming languages, it's just a bad (in fact, incorrect) example.

Regards,

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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