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Possibly, your greater experience was the difference. I don't know what experience you had before, but if you came to Ruby with no experience in a "dynamic" lan
by edanm 16y ago
Possibly, your greater experience was the difference. I don't know what experience you had before, but if you came to Ruby with no experience in a "dynamic" language, everything seemed new and hard-to-understand. Later, coming to Python, you probably understood everything better as you were learning it, having had experience with Ruby.
Just a guess, of course.
- bmelton 16y agoI'd had some experience with Perl and quite a bit of experience (had built a couple large-ish apps) in PHP. The reason I referenced Rails and Django as motivators in finding those languages is because after having built and then forced to maintain an enterprise-class application in PHP, I REALLY liked the notion of an MVC framework, and things like Cake and Symfony weren't out (or at least I didn't know about them) yet. So, yeah, I wasn't a programming newbie altogether, but I wasn't as comfortable in just picking up new languages either.