LANGUAGE THAT WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN PERL, AND MORE OBJECT-ORIENTED THAN PYTHON. THAT'S WHY I DECIDED TO DESIGN MY OWN LANGUAGE." CODE DESIGN FUN FLEXIBLE 1991 GUIDO VAN ROSSUM COMPUTATION EFFICIENCES SIMPLE & BEAUTIFUL EXPLICT “NOW, IT'S MY BELIEF THAT PYTHON IS A LOT EASIER THAN TO TEACH TO STUDENTS PROGRAMMING AND TEACH THEM C OR C++ OR JAVA AT THE SAME TIME BECAUSE ALL THE DETAILS OF THE LANGUAGES ARE SO MUCH HARDER. OTHER SCRIPTING LANGUAGES REALLY DON'T WORK VERY WELL THERE EITHER.”
make amazing Ruby software like RSpec possible, and that Python could never have (given the current implementation). Gary Bernhardt Python is the easiest language to read. Ruby is the most fun to write. Jeff Dickey