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Re:Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby? by PythonDeveloper on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:28PM (#3757980)
Well, for me, it's readability and maintainability. I find Ruby unreadable, and if I want to hire a programmer, it's easier to take a Perl, PHP, or even C# developer and teach them Python than it is to teach them Ruby, at least from my experence.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Ruby as a language, and until it was added to most languages, the scaffolding held me in awe...

I just prefer Python's readability.

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Re:Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby? by canatan01 on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:47PM (#3758071)
I agree. I am a PHP developer and just started learning Python a few days ago and must say, for now, it is indeed easy to learn and is very readable. Though I never tried Ruby so I can't tell you if I would find that easy also.
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Re:Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby? by mcphage on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @08:53PM (#3795629)
> until it was added to most languages, the scaffolding held me in awe...

I'm not sure what you mean by "the scaffolding", could you please explain?

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Re:Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby? by schrodingersCat on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:30PM (#3757988)
Good point! Python is very nice to read
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