Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

[Dave Angel]

Stephen Hansen wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
And two places where it differs from nearly every other language:  when 
you define your own flow-control enhancements to the language (e.g. 
WHILE is not a keyword, it's merely a function), and when you finally 
understand dodoes (that's "Do Does").

DaveA