[ Python & Ruby Log ]
Author: Jason R Seney
Key: [+ good] [- bad] [~ indifferent]
_____( Python )____
+ Exellent scientific computation libraries
- No syntatic markup, just indents
+ Tons of built in functionality
+ Consise code
+ Easy imports
+ Has automatic enumeration with ” for i in array: “
~ Many functions are global for type “casting”
ex: str(x) where x=4 , len(myList) where myList = [1,2,3]
_____( Ruby )_____
+ Interactive mode usefull for quick tests of code
+ AWSOME Regex support! Sooo easy to use and get back references
ex. “This is a test”.match(/(\w+) (\w+)) puts x[0] puts x[1]
- No support for incrementors/decrementors ( “n++” or “—i” etc)
- Can use {} or “do … end” or “if … end” which leads to inconsistancy
- Uses blocks instead of for(int i=0; i
