What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Andrew Dalke]

Kenny Tilton:
> as when we go for the
> productivity win of untyped variables and give up on bugs strong static
> typing is supposed to find.

You do realize that strong typing and static typing are different
things?

What does (the lisp equivalent of) 2.5 + "a" do?

In Python, a strongly typed language, it raises an exception.  I
consider that a good thing.

But Python is not statically typed.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com