The chosen language is Ruby

It has been awhile since I wrote about my examination of what language to learn first after using .Net for years. I narrowed it to PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Java. So far, I had gone over all but Java. The reason I did not do Java is because I felt that the examination code I would have written in Java was basically C#. That would not have really brought anything new to light for me. That is not really attractive to me for a new language. I was now left with PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby. I found that Perl was very cryptic in its syntax, PHP was just for web, and that Python and Ruby are very similar. I had Python and Ruby in the top two. Researching what people thought about the two languages, I found that Ruby had the advantage. Since I take what the development community thinks seriously, I have chosen to learn Ruby. I will probably try to learn Rails as well.