Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn?

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 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.

Not completely. At the least, there's arguably still the issue of
len() and friends (vs. `.length` etc.), and also of `self` being
explicit.

Cheers,
Chris