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Python recently had its 20th Birthday. The first public release was on February 20, 1991, Python 0.9.0 (released to alt.sources).

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/121359

It's around the same age as Java.

According to wiki, both appeared in 1995.

(2011 - 1995) != 18

EDIT: Or is that the point you were making?

From the article:

"The name "Ruby" was decided on during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the language." (emphasis added)

Ruby went public in 95

From Wikipedia: "The first public release of Ruby 0.95 was announced on Japanese domestic newsgroups on December 21, 1995. Subsequently three more versions of Ruby were released in two days."

So the original parent's post is much more accurate than your 'correction'.

It's almost as old as me!

But linux is as old as me!

Happy 18th Birthday, Ruby