Ruby is perl-minded folks reinventing python without understanding it. The result was: ruby is python-done wrong.
This is something said by someone who has no clue about the Smalltalk influence on both Python and Ruby. (Though Guido was very critical of certain things Smalltalk did, and made a point to do certain things very differently.) Ruby is very much Perl redone by someone who very much wanted a Smalltalk-like object system, but with much more syntactic sugar.