On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Josef Tupag <joseftu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been programming (when I do program) mainly in Perl for the last 10 > years or so. But I've been itching to learn a new language for a while now, > and the two near the top of the list are Ruby and Python.
If you have the time give both a try. Start with Python, of course ;-). I've been programming Python as my primary language for the past 4 years after having done Perl and PHP professionally. Python is a lot of fun, the language is very clean and clear and it's got a great standard library. From my dabbling in Ruby I can say that I'm not too keen on the syntax of the language or some of the semantics, it just feel sloppy (but certainly less sloppy than PHP). Both languages are very functional and you can do the same tasks in either one so I think it comes down, mostly, to syntax and semantics. -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problem just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
