After using Python a lot recently, I’m starting to miss Ruby; it has some nice features that Python lacks (object.each iterators, for a start, and the very nice Date (or is it Datetime or Time?) object that parses input in gods know how many different formats then allows you to output it again in any format you like - I know Python has strptime, but it doesn’t guess at the format like Ruby can).

It’s a grass-is-always-greener thing, of course; if I was using Ruby a lot I’d miss Python’s syntax (I hate having to type out “begin” and “end”, partly because I cock it up so often).

I’ve been looking at Haskell recently, but I’m a long way from understanding functional programming well enough to actually use it. All I’m sure of is that I don’t want to have to use Perl much in the near future (dollar signs get on my wick).