Well put, and this is a great article. I use Ruby, and I don't consider myself a fanboy. I know that Ruby and Python are roughly equivalent in most ways; that J

Well put, and this is a great article. I use Ruby, and I don't consider myself a fanboy. I know that Ruby and Python are roughly equivalent in most ways; that Java and .NET are better than Ruby for some systems; that the web is run on PHP and Perl; and that there are more powerful languages out there. But man, I really enjoy Ruby. I find it expressive, powerful, and beautiful, and I enjoy going to work in the morning, especially the (rare) days where I can write code from start to finish. Does that make me a fanboy?