From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T00:18:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as First Language


Robert Klemme wrote:
> woodyee wrote:

> Ruby vs. Perl: much cleaner syntax and less typing.
>
>
> Ruby vs. Python: can't comment on that.
>

Perl has gotten a bad rap, well-written perl is pretty easy to follow.
Also perl's kind of hard to avoid, in certain circles, lots of times i
start somethign by reading CPAN modules, lots of OReilly books have
sample code in perl, etc. so at least being able to read perl code is
helpful

python:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/305692.html

ruby has a couple really nice IDEs, komodo and Arachno, which make
learning as painless as possible, popping up method names for you to
click on when the IDE can determine what object instance you're talking
about.  (Wing IDE for python is also really nice).