Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

[Thomas Jollans]

On 06/23/2010 01:30 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 6/22/10 4:09 PM, rantingrick wrote:
>> ...After reading these comments i reminisce back to a time when a good
>> friend of this community "r" said basically the same things but was
>> lynched for them. Hmm? Has the community changed? Or is it that these
>> comments came from someone other than "r" that they go unpunished.
>> Hmm, riddles in the dark...? 
> 
> If I remember the thread correctly, it was a part of a Call to Arms to
> march out and Wage War against Ruby and Defeat It before it Defeated Us.
> 
> Or something to that nature. If I'm remembering a different thread then
> you are, well -- there /was/ a thread like that.
> 
> And that's terribly exhausting. See, we all (wait, let me get up on a
> stool and speak for The Community) may quite like Python, may quite not
> like Ruby, and may find usage of Ruby to be perhaps a sign of some form
> of mental illness (okay, no, not really), but we're also quite content
> and happy for people to use Ruby if they want to. And we're oddly not
> threatened by its popularity.
> 
> Good for you, Rubyers. I applaud your success and wish you more of it.

Hear, hear!