On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Wolfgang Keller <felip...@gmx.net> wrote: >> I'm really new to Usenet/Newsgroups, but... I'd like to learn some >> new programming language, because I learnt a bit of Perl though its >> OOP is ugly. So, after searching a bit, I found Python and Ruby, and >> both of they are cute. So, assuming you'll say me "learn python", why >> should I learn it over Ruby? > > The point why Ruby was started (perceived deficit of object-orientation) > has been remedied since Python 2.2.
Not completely. At the least, there's arguably still the issue of len() and friends (vs. `.length` etc.), and also of `self` being explicit. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
