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In this example, I try something a bit more complicated. This was originally done in Ruby, as an exercise for an interview, but I’ve decided to make it a bake-off post to follow up from last month. What follows is mostly a linguistic analysis. In the coming months, I’ll start doing performance and reliability comparisons [...]

I’m experimenting with comparative differences in Python and Ruby. Here is an example from each language, designed to do exactly the same thing: go and get a copy of “A Comedy of Errors” from Gutenberg, and dump it to the console. Not too useful, but interesting from the perspective of seeing how the two languages [...]