I've been programming (when I do program) mainly in Perl<http://www.perl.org/>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<http://www.ruby-lang.org/>and Python <http://python.org/>.
I figure that Ruby would be easy to learn because of its similarity to Perl (I'm told). But I also figure that Python would be easy to learn because of its simplicity. And when it comes to webby stuff, I can use Rails<http://www.rubyonrails.org/>with Ruby and Django <http://www.djangoproject.com/> with Python. I'm currently leaning toward Python and began doing so last week. I started with Mark Pilgrim's excellent Dive Into Python <http://diveintopython.org/>and made it thru the first 3 chapters pretty quickly. So far it feels pretty good. Before I really dive in, though, I'm curious to hear what others think about the choice between these two languages. (On a related note, you might also read Tim Bray's On Ruby<http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/07/24/Ruby>post, since he just started learning Ruby.) Josef Tupag - best humidifier <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>
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