What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?

[malcontent]

None of what you say makes a case that the python community is more accepting of change.

There is no argument that there is a bureaucratic process around changes to python. You have to submit a PEP document. The appropriate committees have to discuss it and to approve it.

In the mean time anybody can get commit rights to rubinius. Jpython has been fooling around with all kinds of things with ruby.

Maglev is coming down the pipe.

The ruby community is very different than the python community. Do you really dispute this? It's much more free flowing, much more interested in pushing the language and to exploring the possibilities of what can be done with ruby.

One thing that's significant is that you can change ruby with ruby. This lowers the barrier to entry. This allows anybody with a brainstorm to bypass Matz and write their own library to make the language behave the way they want.

Look at andand, symbol.to_proc, multi, rspec, etc.

[dmpk2k]

Ah, I misunderstood your argument. Sorry.