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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# deve

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.

schrodingersCat 14y ago
Good point! Python is very nice to read
canatan01 14y ago
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.
mcphage 14y ago
> 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?