2010/1/27 Jean Guillaume Pyraksos <wis...@hotmail.com>: > What are the arguments for choosing Python against Ruby > for introductory programming ?
Frankly, either would be a good choice. I think Python is a little cleaner, but I'm sure you'd find Ruby fans who'd argue the complete opposite. Both have good ecosystems, (i.e. good communities, and plenty of good libraries and frameworks) - but Python is probably a bit ahead here having been around a bit longer. > Python has no provisions > for tail recursion, Ruby is going to... So what ? This would be a very strange reason to pick one language over the other - it's a very minor point. -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
