Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

[Shashwat Anand]

Josef: Make sure you ask this question on Ruby mailing list too. Just like
James I too am personally biased towards python and so will be a lot of
people on this list.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, James Mills
<prologic at shortcircuit.net.au>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Josef Tupag <joseftupag at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Before I really dive in, though, I'm curious to hear what others think
> about
> > the choice between these two languages.
>
> This is a terribly subjective opinion and I apologize to anyone that
> actually uses
> Ruby and likes it :)
>
> I find Ruby (compared to Python) to be a syntactical rip-off and
> a bad one at that. Some things in Ruby aren't nearly as simple or
> as concise as you would find in Python.
>
> When it comes to "Web Frameworks" IHMO, I believe Python has
> a lot wide variety of tools available to you, not just Django,
> TurbotGears, Pylons, etc. (I can't comment on Ruby).
>
> Aside from my not liking some of Ruby's syntax or semantics
> I found Ruby on Rails to be awful. I went through it's turotial
> a few months back and didn't even make the first couple of pages
> before I got utterly bored with reading.
>
> So there you go...
>
> Sorry I can't offer you a real objective response!
>
> cheers
> James
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