Hello Serve, Sunday, March 28, 2004, 3:44:25 PM, you wrote: SL> I'm trying to decide to learn either python or ruby. Are there fundamental SL> differences between them? No, there aren't any fundamental difference. From an educational point they the same, also not different from perl or tcl. Imperative script languages with OO extensions. If you really want to increase your wisdom learn one of them, one compiled language and one functional language. And remember, good programmers learn how to do programming. It doesn't matter in what language they do it. You can learn language like ruby, perl, or c later within one week. Thats why normally universities don't teach language. -- Best regards, Lothar mailto:mailinglists / scriptolutions.com