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

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by ajwinn • 14 years ago

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cremno• 14 years ago

>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)

lukeck• 14 years ago

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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