> I just wanted to thank everybody for the great responses. After going
> through some of the links you folks provided, and reading through some
> documentation, my curiosity has transformed into utter maniacal glee. Ruby
> solves a lot of the problems I had with python. Blocks are particularly
> enticing. I have spent a lot of time hacking around with python, trying to
> abuse metaclasses so I could use the python parser for domain specific
> languages. I'm delighted to find that ruby provides such an elegant
> mechnaism to facilitate the task. Additionally, it looks like ruby's
> syntax is significantly more elegant than python, in many respects.
> 
> Now i'm going to port a bunch of my python code for practice! =D
> 


Hphew. That was fast and easy, wasn't it? Glad you found solutions to 
your problems so quickly.

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