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SalmoShalazar
on Aug 29, 2023
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Ask HN: Why did Python win?
What about the design of Ruby makes it far superior?
cutler
on Aug 29, 2023
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Blocks, Procs and lambdas compared with Python's crippled equivalent. Elegant built-in regex handling curated from Perl. Concise, expressive one-liners. Perlish list shorthand: %w(aa bb cc) => ['aa', 'bb', 'cc']. Everything an expression.
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