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