What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Alex Martelli]

Kenny Tilton wrote:
   ...
> thread: Python is not trying to be everything. Fair enough. Let Python
> be Python, let Lisp be Lisp.
> 
> ie, If someone wants macros, they probably would also like special
> variables and closures and lexical scope and multi-methods and they may
> as well get it over with and learn Lisp and stop trying make Python more
> than it wants to be.

Hear, hear!  Or one you just can't stand the nested-parentheses idea,
then that's what Dylan was designed for: much the same semantics
and power as Lisp, including all of the features you mention!, but with
infix syntax.


Alex