Recently, I've been reading a great tutorial about Python, the programming language, at diveintopython.org. Highly recommended if, like me, you feel inadequate when you have to admit you know nothing about this fairly popular language.

My next step is going to be to download IronPython so I can program with Python's very cool syntax and the .NET framework's familiar class libraries - the best of both worlds! The only thing that worries me about Python so far is the apparent lack of "Option Explicit" which was the only way to make VB and VBScript (fellow dynamically typed languages) tolerable. I'm only somewhat comforted by the promise that Python won't allow you to use assigned variables by mistake.

After Python, I guess I'll move on to Ruby since Don Box and others have been talking about it so much lately. If only there were a .NET port of Ruby...