I have to agree. I am also mainly a Python programmer who had dabbled a bit in Ruby, but in the above examples, Ruby is definitely nicer. I mentioned some of t

I have to agree. I am also mainly a Python programmer who had dabbled a bit in Ruby, but in the above examples, Ruby is definitely nicer. I mentioned some of the reasons I stuck with Python here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941594 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941594 Where _language_ is concerned, I think Ruby is every bit as nice as Python if not nicer.