Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Nate Straz wrote:
>
>   
>> On Oct  2 14:22, Mike Miller wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I want to spend some time learning a general-purpose interpreted 
>>> language.
>>>       
>> I recommend Python.  The interactive shell it provides make it very easy 
>> to try things out before you put them in a script.
>>     
>
> OK, but how does Python compare with Perl and Ruby?  They don't have 
> interactive shells?  Are there other major differences.
>
> Mike
>   
I'm sure there'll be lots of opinion within the list, but a lot of 
people have asked this same question (and tried to quantify it, as well):

http://tinyurl.com/427aw2

-- jeremy