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Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by viraptor on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:07AM (#1098007)
Not sure what this snippet does, but if it creates a block that is registered as a task named "name", then you can do the same with decorators:

    def task(f):
       register_task(f.__name__, f)
       return f
    
    @task
    def name(t)
       .....
or similar.
Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby by algorias on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:51AM (#1098150)
Exactly. I fail to understand why people are so dismissive of languages/approaches that do things slightly differently and don't implement equivalent things in the exact same way. What's so special about the rake syntax?