[YLUG] I.T. consultancies/software houses in York area?

[Robert Hulme]

>    PHP aside, I'm also trying to work out the point of Ruby - during my
> brief flirtation with it, it didn't appear to offer anything that wasn't
> already catered for by Python and Perl.
Like everything else it came about because someone (Matz) wanted to
make something of his own and didn't like what was already out there.

The Ruby-lang site has a page with the similarities and differences on:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/to-ruby-from-python/

It doesn't mention blocks though oddly... I heard that Guido was quite
enamoured by blocks so maybe they're in Python too now.

-Rob

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