From ruby-talk  Mon Feb 23 15:01:28 2004
From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery () wanadoo ! fr>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:01:28 +0000
To: ruby-talk
Subject: Re: Need examples comparing Ruby to Python
Message-Id: <403A1658.2070105 () wanadoo ! fr>
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Hello,

David MacQuigg wrote:

>I'm putting together a web page comparing Ruby to Python, and I need
>some good examples showing off the advantages of Ruby.  I'm new to
>Ruby, so all I've been able to do so far is pick some examples from
>the Programming Ruby book, and do a Google search on "compare ruby
>python".   What I've found is way out-of-date.
>
and good luck for your project!

i would personnally emphasize select, find, the & array operator which 
is array intersection, sort_by, and this kind of cool ruby features 
found in Enumerable. But I don't know how python does it.

emmanuel