Python and Ruby are both excellent languages.
By
bce
on February 21, 2007
And I'd choose one over the other based on the libraries needed for the project at hand.
Agreed
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I think that the public put's too much hype on them, and give them credit for things that are unrelated.
for instance when people talk about AJAX they typically think it's a by-product of ruby, and it isn't. that's not cool!
just stick with php. after all if you can't do it with php... you can't do it
Perl's great too, for that matter. They each have their strengths and weaknesses.
They're both decent languages. I find Python to be annoying for it's half-hearted OO, what with str(), repr() and the like. But it's implementation is faster than ruby 1.8, and ruby has some warts language-wise too.