I think Chris is mainly writing for the Ruby community; in a talk he gave at RubyConf '09 (http://tr.im/Rbui http://tr.im/Rbui) he talked about things that Pyth

I think Chris is mainly writing for the Ruby community; in a talk he gave at RubyConf '09 (http://tr.im/Rbui http://tr.im/Rbui) he talked about things that Python did better than they and one big thing he said was how adamant the Python people are on documentation. I think it's probably 20% newest programmers are getting less and less interested in the command-line, 20% article is ridiculous and 60% dude was bored wanted to write an easy and thorough article on a programming topic.