Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn?

[Wolfgang Keller]

> >> 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.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure which "perceived deficit of object-orientation"
> is being talked about, or why anyone but OOP purists would consider
> that a problem.

Yukihiro Matsumoto did. I myself never perceived any lack of
object-orientation with Python, since I've learned programming with
Pascal anyway. >;-> 

I just wanted to point out that given the state of Python today, no one
would probably consider starting Ruby any more.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang