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Pros of Python
- Great libraries1.2K
- Readable code965
- Beautiful code848
- Rapid development789
- Large community692
- Open source439
- Elegant394
- Great community283
- Object oriented274
- Dynamic typing222
- Great standard library78
- Very fast62
- Functional programming56
- Easy to learn52
- Scientific computing47
- Great documentation36
- Productivity30
- Matlab alternative29
- Easy to read29
- Simple is better than complex25
- It's the way I think21
- Imperative20
- Very programmer and non-programmer friendly19
- Free19
- Powerfull language17
- Machine learning support17
- Fast and simple16
- Scripting14
- Explicit is better than implicit12
- Ease of development11
- Clear and easy and powerfull10
- Unlimited power9
- It's lean and fun to code8
- Import antigravity8
- Print "life is short, use python"7
- Python has great libraries for data processing7
- Although practicality beats purity6
- Fast coding and good for competitions6
- There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious6
- High Documented language6
- Readability counts6
- Rapid Prototyping6
- I love snakes6
- Now is better than never6
- Flat is better than nested6
- Great for tooling6
- Great for analytics5
- Web scraping5
- Lists, tuples, dictionaries5
- Complex is better than complicated4
- Socially engaged community4
- Plotting4
- Beautiful is better than ugly4
- Easy to learn and use4
- Easy to setup and run smooth4
- Simple and easy to learn4
- Multiple Inheritence4
- CG industry needs4
- List comprehensions3
- Powerful language for AI3
- Flexible and easy3
- It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi3
- Many types of collections3
- If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g3
- If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id3
- Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules3
- Pip install everything3
- No cruft3
- Generators3
- Import this3
- Can understand easily who are new to programming2
- Securit2
- Should START with this but not STICK with This2
- A-to-Z2
- Because of Netflix2
- Only one way to do it2
- Better outcome2
- Good for hacking2
- Batteries included2
- Procedural programming2
- Sexy af1
- Automation friendly1
- Slow1
- Best friend for NLP1
- Powerful0
- Keep it simple0
- Ni0
Pros of Ruby
- Programme friendly608
- Quick to develop538
- Great community492
- Productivity469
- Simplicity432
- Open source274
- Meta-programming235
- Powerful208
- Blocks157
- Powerful one-liners140
- Flexible70
- Easy to learn59
- Easy to start52
- Maintainability42
- Lambdas38
- Procs31
- Fun to write21
- Diverse web frameworks19
- Reads like English14
- Makes me smarter and happier10
- Rails9
- Elegant syntax9
- Very Dynamic8
- Matz7
- Programmer happiness6
- Object Oriented5
- Elegant code4
- Friendly4
- Generally fun but makes you wanna cry sometimes4
- Fun and useful4
- There are so many ways to make it do what you want3
- Easy packaging and modules3
- Primitive types can be tampered with2
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Cons of Python
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Cons of Python
- Still divided between python 2 and python 353
- Performance impact28
- Poor syntax for anonymous functions26
- GIL22
- Package management is a mess19
- Too imperative-oriented14
- Hard to understand12
- Dynamic typing12
- Very slow12
- Indentations matter a lot8
- Not everything is expression8
- Incredibly slow7
- Explicit self parameter in methods7
- Requires C functions for dynamic modules6
- Poor DSL capabilities6
- No anonymous functions6
- Fake object-oriented programming5
- Threading5
- The "lisp style" whitespaces5
- Official documentation is unclear.5
- Hard to obfuscate5
- Circular import5
- Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"4
- The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit4
- Not suitable for autocomplete4
- Meta classes2
- Training wheels (forced indentation)1
Cons of Ruby
- Memory hog7
- Really slow if you're not really careful7
- Nested Blocks can make code unreadable3
- Encouraging imperative programming2
- No type safety, so it requires copious testing1
- Ambiguous Syntax, such as function parentheses1
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What is Python?
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
What is Ruby?
Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.
What is Zsh (Z shell)?
An interactive login shell, command interpreter and scripting language.
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