I initiated a thread over on comp.lang.python which has turned into
somewhat of a comparison between Ruby and Python, their relative
strengths and weaknesses. The thread is titled Python Popularity:
Questions and Comments.

Since i do not know much about Ruby, mostly just what I read on this
list and in the Pickaxe book, maybe some one form here could check out
the thread over there and make sure I am giving Ruby its due, and not
exaggerating its weaknesses.

By teh way, I admire Ruby. Although I am a Python hacker at heart, I
enjoy this newsgroup, the Ruby community, and I think Matz is doing an
outstanding job. I do believe though, that Python and Ruby are aimed at
a very similar problem domains with similar philosophies; and that is
what I began to talk about on comp.lang.python and that got the thread
going.

Ron Stephens
http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html