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by BaseballPhysics 1029 days ago
It goes to show how your upbringing affects these things. Before Ruby I spent a lot of time in Smalltalk which really shaped the way I thought about language and program structure, APIs, etc. I'd also spent a metric ton of time writing Perl. Jumping into Ruby was like putting on a comfortable pair of shoes.

Meanwhile Python always felt like an ill-fitting suit to me. I just personally didn't connect with the language design.

But, to each their own!