What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Jacek Generowicz]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

[I suspect it predates Andrew's oeuvre ... but then probably doesn't
qualify on the "in print" requirement.]

Anyone know what I'm talking about ?