Python's object system really feels like it was an afterthought and its standard libraries are comparatively messy. The object systems feels a lot like using o

Python's object system really feels like it was an afterthought and its standard libraries are comparatively messy. The object systems feels a lot like using opaque types in C -- the notion of objects is a relatively thin, rather than deep abstractive mechanism. It also feels to me like it's overly explicit in the wrong places and lacking syntactic sugar in obvious places. I like Sinatra partly since we were building apps on our own (non-SQL) database and partly because there just wasn't much to learn. I like things that I can work with progressively rather than having to invest a bit of time in up front to get started. (My opinions on PHP, Python and Ruby were all formed relatively recently as I learned each of them to write the language bindings for our webservices API.)