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As much as Rails seems to define the Ruby world, I think that we should be careful to distinguish between the two. Despite its syntactical ambiguity, Ruby is no

• bobbyi 17y ago
  I didn't want to mention it by name, but I was actually talking about perl. What originally attracted me to python was that I wanted a non-magical perl. That may not be such a big factor anymore, but it shaped the language and culture. "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
  • menloparkbum 17y ago
    Perl was a little too much. I like ruby a little better than python because I still need some magic in my life.