I think Python's enduring appeal is down to the combination of its very human friendly syntax (which drew on earlier work on the ABC language at CWI) and its pr

I think Python's enduring appeal is down to the combination of its very human friendly syntax (which drew on earlier work on the ABC language at CWI) and its practical approach of wrapping existing C libraries so it could be used as glue code for many different domains. By contrast I feel Ruby was very much a one hit wonder with Ruby on Rails.