What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
I am one of those people who accepted the lisp religion of "syntax is evil". I have a descent knowledge of python, and I've read a few ruby tutorials.<p>Neither python nor ruby are lisp. Python is not cool because of generators, list comprehensions, decorators or any other feature. Ruby is not cool because of blocks or monkey patching(im suspicions of anything called MONKEY patching). Ruby and python are cool because of really cool libraries and the way people use these languages, not because they have especially well designed syntax.<p>Instead of arguing about how cool your crappy syntax is, argue about which has the better libraries, which implementation is better, which is used for cooler projects. Non of these languages can top lisp when it comes to expressiveness and flexibility.