> In ruby, you are enabled to fix so much more of the language to your own liking, so there is much less of a need for the main language to change. very true.

> In ruby, you are enabled to fix so much more of the language to your own liking, so there is much less of a need for the main language to change. very true. lots of metaprogramming facilities in Ruby that just don't exist in Python. To further underscore your point, take a look at how much of Rails code is devoted to making Ruby more usable/consistent and has a only tangential relationship to web development.