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		ohashi on Dec 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Looking for a Job? Learn Ruby, Python and be a Tea... How do you explain Perl not faring so well?

tptacek on Dec 6, 2011 [–]

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I don't like Python; I'm a Ruby developer (actually, I don't know why I stopped calling myself a C dev). But I'll freely admit: most Python programmers know Python because they spend their real day job programming.

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