On Jul 2, 11:00 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > rantingrick wrote: > > Ruby: for x in blah: blah_blah_blah > > Python: for x in blah: blah_blah_blah > > Here you're making the mistake of thinking that surface syntax > is all that matters. Although the 'for' statements in Python and > Ruby look very similar, underneath they're based on quite > different mechanisms. They're not equivalent: the Python way > leads to various powerful things such as generators; the Ruby > way lends itself more to user-defined control structures.
I agree however i see merit in both approaches. But why must we have completely different languages just for that those two approaches? We don't it's just a religious thing. Doesn't make sense to me. If Guido and Matz got together over some sake and Monty Python i'll bet they could hash out a singular replacement fro Ruby and Python in no time! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list