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For some reason it reminded me of _why's unholy:

https://github.com/devyn/unholy/blob/master/README

> You know, it's crazy that Python and Ruby fans find themselves battling so much. While syntax is different, this exercise proves how close they are to each other! And, yes, I like Ruby's syntax and can think much better in it, but it would be nice to share libs with Python folk and not have to wait forever for a mythical VM that runs all possible languages.

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That's funny.

In a previous job I was the biggest Ruby supporter on a team of Pythonistas. To show them how similar the language was I translated a couple of their scripts from Python to Ruby... it was surprisingly easy and the linecount was about the same

That is all good and well, but which was easier to read and debug?

That really depends on your background... I find Python harder to read than Ruby

> On a team of Pythonistas

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