From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T23:29:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you please help to make decision?


On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:20 AM, David Orriss Jr wrote:

> In article <1191143544.1498.1.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr>,
>  Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> wrote:
>
>> Fist of all, sorry for poor English, I am not professional English
>> speaker. I have some plan to do study computer language for my  
>> work. But
>> still I do not make decision what to do study between Ruby and  
>> Python. I
>> never have experience to use any computer language. I think Ruby's
>> design is clean, whereas it does not have many libraries to use
>> somebody.
>>
>> Can you please help to make decision?
>
> I don't think Python has ever gained the traction that Ruby has,
> especially with the advent of RoR.
>
> My opinion, go with Ruby.
>
Huh? Python's got lots of traction! Just not the buzz.
Python is widely used and shipped with systems.

Try both.
Go with the one that suits you best!
You have many things to consider. Browse the books and sites for all  
languages you're considering.
A bad book can be a big turn-off to a good language.

You can't go wrong with either one.