Dear Python, Why Are You So Ugly?

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Above are online interactive tutorials for learning Python vs. Ruby. Learnpython.org isn’t ugly exactly, it’s just that Try Ruby is so much more polished. It’s obvious that a professional designer had a hand in Try Ruby, whereas the design of learnpython.org was thrown together by a programmer who later slapped a few ads on it and called it done. Which tutorial would you rather use?

It depends, if I'd want to learn webdesign I will probably use the well designed tutorial. If, on the other hand, I'm interested in learning a programming language I won't be concerned with the site design but rather with the quality of the tutorial.

A good design does not guarantee a good content ...

https://twitter.com/#!/yukihiro_matz/status/1957201505473126...

Matz: That's rails, ruby's official site is uglier than python's.

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