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What's better about Ruby than Python?

Michael Peuser mpeuser at web.de
Mon Aug 18 04:44:49 EDT 2003 
"Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> What's better about Ruby than Python?  I'm sure there's something.  What
is
> it?

There have been very profound answers in this thread (I like Asun Friere's
and Graham Fowcett's best so far ;-)

I don't know much about Ruby but I did some substantial programming in
Python and Perl. I should now consider side issues more important than
language features itself:

- How fast does the code run
- Is there an acceptable IDE (best: GUI/IDE  RAD-Framework)
- Is there a flexible and fast GUI Toolkit
-Can you access OpenGL
- Which platforms are supported
- How easy is multimedia (Sound/Movie in- and output)
- How can you deploy your program
- How large is a self contained EXE file
- Is there mathematical support (array arithmetic, statistical functions,
plotting)
- Is there documentation
- Are there books

Theses questions are quite unordered as they just  orrured to me. However it
has turned out that answering them or working around negative answers will
probably cost you more time than any flaws in the language itself....


Kindly
Michael P
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