[BioPython] Off-topic: BioRuby

Andrew Dalke dalke@acm.org
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:47:06 -0700


Jeff:
> What I've always found striking about Ruby is that maz decided
> not to use the ':' character to introduce blocks...

As I recall, the ':' isn't there in Ruby because it isn't
needed.  Guido put it there because user tests for ABC
showed it made things generally easier to understand.
That sort of difference is why I place Ruby closer to
Perl than to Python.

                    Andrew