Why I'm glad I use Python

Python is actively developed and maintained by a core group of interested developers. Fortunately, they don't buy into any of the nay-sayers and just continue to quietly and determinedly improve the language. Meanwhile, languages like Ruby have significant barriers to performance and feature improvements.

Fowler on Ruby

Martin Fowler weighs in on the Ruby hype and says its productivity for even non-web applications makes it worth considering. Never mind that all the same applications can be written in Python, and there are far more libraries to choose from. Sigh.