Alun ap Rhisiart.
Old behavioural ecologist strayed into computing for a living. Used to study predator-prey relationships and spider web-building behaviour.
One of founder members of Amarinda, doing training/consulting in XP, Smalltalk, dynamic languages generally.
While writing about Smalltalk, you mentioned it [Python] had libraries, particularly mature(ish) GUI libraries, that Ruby doesn't have I'm curious about your impressions of the FxRuby? version of the fox toolkit. nb I have nothing against Python, I've just recently started using FXRuby and was curious what others thought of it.