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I'm a huge Python fan and there is nothing in the world that would force me to switch to Ruby =P

• AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
  That's exactly what I mean. People feel very strongly for one or the other. Yet, even you, can't deny that they are very similar! Compare them to Java, Lisp, C, Go, Haskell, Perl,...
  • __david__ 14y ago
    Actually, I'd lump Perl in with Python, Ruby, and Javascript. They're all at about the same "power level" and have more or less the same built-in types and language features. They all have their own personality but if you only know 1 of the 4 you're still perfectly capable of writing any program that will be more or less equivalent to someone writing the same thing in one of the other 3.
  • erikpukinskis 14y ago
    This thread is full of people saying "I use (python|ruby) and (ruby|python) seems fine. There's just no reason to learn it" and you respond excitedly to this comment as if it's representative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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    • AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
      The above comment happened to be one of the first responses. The others came later. That's why.
  • gruseom 14y ago
    People feel very strongly for one or the other. Yet [you] can't deny that they are very similar It's their very similarity that gives rise to the strong feeling. René Girard's theory of mimetic rivalry sheds light on this. Edit: Alternatively, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences