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Re:Ask HN: Most practical programming language to learn? by abbasmehdi on Sunday October 02, 2011 @06:50PM (#3064293)
You learn one, you can mess around in all. Go with either Ruby or Python, and you will be fine. I'd go with Ruby, because if you decide to do anything for the web then Rails (Ruby's web framework) is more beginner friendly than Django (Python's web framework).
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Re:Ask HN: Most practical programming language to learn? by mcrittenden on Sunday October 02, 2011 @07:49PM (#3064447)
Just as an anecdote, I found Django much easier to get started with than Rails.
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Re:Ask HN: Most practical programming language to learn? by nahname on Sunday October 02, 2011 @08:00PM (#3064464)
What is your background, if you don't mind me asking.
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Re:Ask HN: Most practical programming language to learn? by mcrittenden on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:13AM (#3066122)
PHP mostly, I'm a Drupal developer by day. I had no prior experience in Python or Ruby when I tried looking at Django and Rails.
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