You read this part:

> turned it into a beautiful, easy-to-read language.

and got annoyed (presumably?) that Python wasn't mentioned, but you completely ignored:

> it took a lot of the underlying philosophies from Perl

Ruby is a lot closer to Perl than Python is, which is what the draw would be for people migrating away from Perl.

Well, if you wanted "Perl, only better", you went with Ruby. Python is good, but it has a different flavor.