Why Python over Ruby?
knowtheory: What's clear to me reading the comments in this thread, is that there are a lot of people who like Python, and don't understand what people appreciate in Ruby.None of these are reasons why people choose Python over Ruby.  Or why Python has become more popular.  It is worth noting that Python was also mentioned a lot as a teaching tool when its popularity began ramping up, and some universities have replaced Java and Scheme with Python as an introductory language.Python really is not appreciably better than Ruby, in my experience.  Nor will i claim that Ruby is appreciably better than Python.  I personally use Ruby in daily life, and used to use Python prior to discovering Ruby.  Both languages support some really weird warts, inconsistencies, and baggage that they retain for the sake of backwards compatibility.Instead they really do provide different philosophies on life.  To claim that Ruby is a tangled soup of options and syntactic sugar is to miss the point really.  Nor is Ruby is not trying to be all things to all people.  Matz cares about one thing, and that's the ability to let programmers get work done with as few cognitive hurdles sourced from the programming language itself.  Does that mean you have options?  Yes.  Does that mean that it would be better to only have one way to do everything?  Not necessarily.