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Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn?

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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@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

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Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? tcgo <tomeuari@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 05:58 -0700
  Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 23:25 +1000
    Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-30 10:23 -0400
      Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 00:35 +1000
        Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-30 11:01 -0400
          Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 01:37 +1000
            Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-30 18:14 -0400
              Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 09:11 +1000
              Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-10-03 19:55 +0200
      Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-01 00:37 +1000
  Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-30 08:45 -0500
  Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 08:18 -0700
    Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-09-30 18:17 -0400
      Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-30 23:59 +0000
  Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-30 16:47 +0100
  Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> - 2012-10-03 20:31 +0200
    Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-10-03 21:47 -0700
      Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-04 06:34 +0000
        Re: Can somebody give me an advice about what to learn? Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> - 2012-10-04 19:45 +0200

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