Andrew Hunt <andy / pragmaticprogrammer.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 08:06, Michael Vondung wrote: > >> I'd probably have ended up with Python without it, because at the time >> I really didn't know what I was doing. By now, I'm using Ruby as a >> "general purpose" scripting language on both my Windows and my FreeBSD >> box (mostly for ascii text processing and log file analyzing). > > Yikes! Well at least I've saved one soul from the ravages of Python :-) One of the guys at work this morning mentioned that he was starting to learn perl. Needless to say, I did my good deed for the day :) martin