>> I am/was a big fan of Python, esp due to its clear >> layout requirements (a god-sent for those of us who have >> to read other people's code), but Ruby is my current favorite :-) > And yet another. I have been a Python fan for a few years, too ( until > the very moment I opened the Picaxe for the first time and read the > first few pages :-) I couldn't understand the Pickaxe book. It was divided into weird sections and I had to read the book backwards to get Ruby. Even then it didn't make sense. It made no sense until I read a tutorial from a professor. Maybe I'm a-pythonic... Cameron