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A Tale of Two Languages

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Try this page to compare Ruby‘s and Python‘s language elegance side-by-side. Spoiler Warning: There is a winner!

To get you started:
Ruby – string.method ["String".reverse or "String".length]
Python – string[slice] or function(string) ["String"[::-1] or len(“String”)]

–π

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Written by Harsh

November 11th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

Posted in Programming,Web

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  1. so what do *you* think? or you don’t want to get dragged into a flame way?

    chris3495

    12 Nov 07 at 1:16 PM

  2. @chris3495: In short, I subscribe to “whichever-good-tool-works-best” philosophy.

    Harsh

    12 Nov 07 at 6:43 PM

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