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raganwald on Aug 22, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?

What are you doing with Python that can't be done with FORTRAN?

DocSavage on Aug 22, 2008 [–]

Running on Google's App Engine :)

Seriously, though, I'm not arguing python's anonymous functions are just as good as ruby's. I'm curious about his particular situation where "3-4 lines of Ruby" is all it takes.

eru on Aug 23, 2008 | [–]

You could run FORTRAN on a virtual machine on Python.

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