From: Tim Uckun <timuckun@...>
Date: 2006-05-12T13:39:14+09:00
Subject: Re: conversion issues

> But seriously, if you feel that Ruby doesn't work for you, check out> Python (http://www.python.org/) or maybe Perl (http://www.perl.org/)> or even Java (http://java.sun.com/). There are a lot of programming> languages out there, and it never hurts to give some of them a try.

Noooo. If you are a new programmer learn lisp and smalltalk first. Ifsomehow you decide that neither one of them are to your liking thenlearn python.
You can safely skip perl and java :)