> Hello World in Ruby (and a few other > languages):http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2005/12/hello_world.html
> Hello World in > Python:http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/helloworld.htm I know nothing of Ruby, but just the fact that in Ruby the Hello World program is puts 'Hello, World!' whereas the Python Hello World program is print 'Hello, World!' suggests to me that Python is more intuitive because the word "print" has a meaning in English that makes sense given what you want to do, but "puts" just doesn't. And, as someone who has been learning Python from almost no knowledge of programming, I've found it is not too bad in trying to keep as reasonably close to a natural language like English as possible. I also think the mandatory indenting of Python is helpful in forcing new programmers to be neat and see code blocks quickly. Plus I doubt the Ruby community has such a large group of helpful people and libraries and such (but I could be wrong about that, just assuming it based on the fact that Python has been around longer). On the other hand, perhaps because Ruby is newer it has been able to freshly start with advantages learned from the difficulties of other languages. Byung-Hee Hwang ought to go the Ruby group and see what they are saying. As far as English goes, Byung-Hee, you have to admit English grammar is easy (though spelling is not so easy). That anyone can speak and write Chinese is impressive to me, as the language looks completely impossible! Good luck! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
