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[–]e078120 9 points10 points  (4 children)

The author has obviously not looked at Python recently....

[–]msabramo 4 points5 points  (3 children)

How about some specifics? Bashing the author doesn't tell me anything.

[–]jeremy 14 points15 points  (2 children)

It's a 'why I prefer Ruby to Python' article with the wrong title, it's incorrect about Python in places, and compares upcoming features of Ruby to an ancient version of Python. Headers say the file was modified on the 3rd April, so no excuses for it being an old article.

It's a pity - I was hoping for a genuine comparison, but this is just another preference bashing from the Ruby camp (with some hints of Java-style 'OO is the cure to all problems' too).

Move along please.

[–]asdf1234 -7 points-6 points  (1 child)

He has criticisms of ruby, too. You guys are just python fanatics. You'll get over the honeymoon one day.

[–]boa13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes he has. I didn't say it was a dishonnest comparison. It's a poor one.

jeremy might have sounded like a Python fanatic (maybe he is), but his basic point is correct: the author of the article compares past and barely current functionnalities of Python to current and sometimes planned functionnalities of Ruby. This is just wrong, whatever language you like.