Comments on: Heist http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/625 A Pythoneer's adventures with Scheme, etc. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Hans Nowak http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/625/comment-page-1#comment-529 Hans Nowak Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:09:52 +0000 http://4.flowsnake.org/?p=625#comment-529 Hm, well, the heavy use of DSLs would be one of them... also, Ruby allows for several constructs that are generally considered gratuitous/redundant in the Python world, like "unless", "x if y", the use of (arguably) non-intuitive operators rather than descriptive method names, etc. And Ruby likes functional idioms more than Python does (or rather, Guido ;-). I'm not saying these are bad things, just that they allow for a different programming style. (In fact, I might consider using Ruby more, if I wasn't already too deep into exploring Lisp variants... :-) Hm, well, the heavy use of DSLs would be one of them… also, Ruby allows for several constructs that are generally considered gratuitous/redundant in the Python world, like “unless”, “x if y”, the use of (arguably) non-intuitive operators rather than descriptive method names, etc. And Ruby likes functional idioms more than Python does (or rather, Guido ;-).

I’m not saying these are bad things, just that they allow for a different programming style.

(In fact, I might consider using Ruby more, if I wasn’t already too deep into exploring Lisp variants… :-)

]]> By: nes http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/625/comment-page-1#comment-528 nes Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:37:47 +0000 http://4.flowsnake.org/?p=625#comment-528 Ah a cliffhanger! Seriously, would you mind giving some examples of practices and idioms you found interesting when comparing? Ah a cliffhanger! Seriously, would you mind giving some examples of practices and idioms you found interesting when comparing?

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