Ruby vs. Python - A n00b's perspective (part 5)

Posted by ajwinn on Monday October 08, 2012 @07:59PM
from the futurefun.tumblr.com dept.

http://futurefun.tumblr.com/post/33181045992/ruby-vs-python-part-5

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Re:Ruby vs. Python - A n00b's perspective (part 5) by cremno on Monday October 08, 2012 @08:39PM (#4629374)

>Having to write out IO::SEEK_SET in Ruby really bothers me

You don't have to. The 2nd argument is optional and defaults to IO::SEEK_SET. (Source: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/IO.html#method-i-seek)

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Re:Ruby vs. Python - A n00b's perspective (part 5) by lukeck on Monday October 08, 2012 @09:05PM (#4629450)

This series of posts has been really interesting. At first I was dismissive and found myself disagreeing with a lot of the assessments but the explanations of why one language's approach is better from a beginner's perspective can tell us much about better ways to teach programming.

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