What's better about Ruby than Python?

Jacek Generowicz jacek.generowicz at cern.ch
Wed Aug 20 03:01:06 EDT 2003


"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> Jacek Generowicz wrote:
> 
> > > Python's firmly in the "always half-open" field (pioneered in print,
> > > to the best of my knowledge, in A. Koenig's "C Traps and Pitfalls",
> >
> > I seem to recall seeing a scanned-in copy of a hand-written talk by
> > Dijkstra, on this.
> 
> this one?
> 
>     "Why numbering should start at zero"
>     http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

Bingo !

Thanks.




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