For me, the biggest difference between Ruby and Python is that Ruby is more perlish (i.e. more hacker, one liners, clever stuff) while Python is cleaner but a b

For me, the biggest difference between Ruby and Python is that Ruby is more perlish (i.e. more hacker, one liners, clever stuff) while Python is cleaner but a bit more verbose and less clever. So in that sens, when I want to hack something, I usually go with Ruby.. but for a big project, I'd prefer Python. (But these days, I'm mostly hacking with Arc :p)