* Bruno Desthuilliers (Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:17:43 +0200) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > (snip) > > 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. > > Hem.... Sorry, but it reminds me of the most clueless comments on Python > I've seen on c.l.ruby. I really don't think Python is more or less > "intuitive" than Ruby, and making a judgement on such a pointless detail > is not even worth the bandswith IMHO. FWIW, 'puts' means 'put string' > (implied : on stdout), which is certainly much more semantically correct > than what 'print' implies.
You missed the point. "puts" for printing something to stdout is definitely a bad name for this operation. I mean "put string" (even abbreviated) what does that mean? On the other hand it does not mean that Python ist more intuitive than Ruby - only the printing to stdout is more intuitive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
