Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn?

[Wolfgang Keller]

> I'm really new to Usenet/Newsgroups, but... I'd like to learn some
> new programming language, because I learnt a bit of Perl though its
> OOP is ugly. So, after searching a bit, I found Python and Ruby, and
> both of they are cute. So, assuming you'll say me "learn python", why
> should I learn it over Ruby?

The point why Ruby was started (perceived deficit of object-orientation)
has been remedied since Python 2.2.

However, Ruby has reproduced quite a few of those well-known problems of
other languages that Python deliberately avoids (such as e.g. deficit of
orthogonality) and that make reading and understanding code difficult,
besides introducing sources for potential bugs.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang