Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Jason Voegele]

holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1020443888.21994.python-list at python.org>...
> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > (... lots of interesting stuff ...)
> > One day I'd really love to co-author a *balanced* comparison
> > of Python's and Ruby's pluses and minuses -- "co-author" 'cause
> > I'd need to find a partner in crime who admires Python but
> > still prefers Ruby, just as I admire Ruby but still prefer
> > Python -- and one "into" Ruby's triviae and minutiae as well
> > as overall philosophy as much as I'm "into" Python's.  Oh well, one day...
> 
> i really hope that this 'one day' will come. Last time i checked
> i couldn't find much of any comparison. Just one or two meaningless
> paragraphs in ruby's documentation, IIRC.

You can find a brief but fairly balanced comparison at:

    http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/rubyfaq-2.html

It doesn't go into the amount of detail that you'd like, but it's
certainly better than that infamous and regrettable Bruce Eckel piece.
:-)

-- 
Jason Voegele
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us."
    -- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer