On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Nate Straz wrote: > On Oct 2 14:22, Mike Miller wrote: > >> I want to spend some time learning a general-purpose interpreted >> language. > > I recommend Python. The interactive shell it provides make it very easy > to try things out before you put them in a script. OK, but how does Python compare with Perl and Ruby? They don't have interactive shells? Are there other major differences. Mike