On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I think Python is a prettier > language visually than either Lua or Ruby, but they're in the ball-park. > Both languages have their warts and quirks, but if Python were declared > illegal overnight[1] I'd probably have no trouble adapting to Ruby or Lua. > Python would still be my first love, but these two languages make a > reasonable rebound language.
A good start. Toy programs don't always tell the whole story, though. How good are the three languages at making your code reliable in the face of user action? My hobby-horse, Unicode, is a notable flaw in many languages - if you ask the user for information (in the most obvious way for whatever environment you're in, be that via a web browser request, or a GUI widget, or text entered at the console), can it cope equally with all the world's languages? What if you want to manipulate that text - is it represented as a sequence of codepoints (Python 3), UTF-16 code units (JavaScript), UTF-8 bytes (quite a few), or "bytes in whatever codepage your system was set to" (anything that hasn't cared)? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
