I think that's a broad brush being used to paint Python and Ruby devs. The Zen of Python mentions "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." There can be multiple solutions, but one of them should be obvious to experienced Pythonistas. Experienced Ruby coders have no illusions about the language being cute or clean - they recognize the warts of the language, but still prefer to work within its world where every value is an easily inspected / modified object.

A super-CPAN could be a nice thing to have. I would be a happy camper if I could easily access Python-Markdown or the Seattle.rb projects from within my Rakudo app.

In reply to Re^3: Summary of Perl in the past 2-3 years by webfiend
in thread Summary of Perl in the past 2-3 years by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.