"starting with both Python and Ruby is a bit strange idea" This suggestion is precisely interesting, because while we might consider them close they solve prob

"starting with both Python and Ruby is a bit strange idea" This suggestion is precisely interesting, because while we might consider them close they solve problems differently in many cases. The one hacker lesson to learn of this (besides the fact that programming can be enjoyable by gazillion orders of magnitudes than with "corporate" languages) is that while bad solutions do exist, there might also be competing but perfectly valid solutions and that one being good does not mean that everything else is bad.