Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

[Ed Keith]

--- On Wed, 6/23/10, Stephen Hansen <me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hansen <me+list/python at ixokai.io>
> Subject: Re: Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 1:51 AM
> On 6/22/10 10:39 PM, Dennis Lee
> Bieber wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:51 -0700, Stephen Hansen
> > <me+list/python at ixokai.io>
> declaimed the following in
> > gmane.comp.python.general:
> > 
> >> I second Forth. Learning and using that was --
> slightly painful, but
> > 
> >     Just pick up any advanced HP
> programmable calculator... RPL is a
> > close substitute <G>
> 
> That's just a start. The reverse and stack-oriented nature
> of the
> language makes you have to start thinking in an interesting
> way, and
> sure, a RPL/stack-calculator can get that for you.
> 
> But then going on and doing real programming with it,
> making your own
> words (functions), ... its fun.
> 
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> 
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I agree you should learn a DIFFERENT programming language. Perl, Python, & Ruby are all quite similar. If you want to expand your horizons, learn one of the following:

  Forth -lots of fun.

  Assembler - give you a much better understanding of what is really happening under the hood.

  Prolog - a very different way of thinking.

Give one of them a try.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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