These sorts of things are subjective. I personally like Ruby at least twice as much as Python. Since Ruby is far more Perl-like than Python, it's hardly a surprise that a Perl programmer thinks it's better.

Yeah, it was way too dismissive...made me think be has never touched any of these languages. I hate microsoft, .Net, and Mono the bastard child, and I love the JVM...but there is no way in hell you could convince me that Java is better than C#.

This is the part he lost me at as well. You can tell very little research went into the article when you quantify the broad-scope merits of any language. You can't say Python is 50 good, while Ruby is 100 good.