You read this part: > turned it into a beautiful, easy-to-read language. and got annoyed (presumably?) that Python wasn't mentioned, but you completely ignore

You read this part: > turned it into a beautiful, easy-to-read language. and got annoyed (presumably?) that Python wasn't mentioned, but you completely ignored: > it took a lot of the underlying philosophies from Perl Ruby is a lot closer to Perl than Python is, which is what the draw would be for people migrating away from Perl.