I’m not one to weigh in on religious debates, but as someone who hops around from server to server I get tired of seeing this:

When I almost always see this:

It’s a matter of convenience for me.  It has nothing to do with any of the magic of Ruby, or my sadistic love for the whitespace of Python.  Instead, my choice is delegated to me by the sysadmins who control the boxes that I use.  On my personal machines I run both interpreters, and often jump between the two languages to keep my skillz up.  But, when it comes to production environments I’m a Pythonista.

And I’m OK with that.