What i don't like about Ruby is that undefined variables can be accessed without error (just like javascript); Python is better in this regard;

However pythons indentation think is not so great for teaching intro to programming.

i have my own small project - the pooh language; it probably has other features which might annoy some people (downside is that it does not have all these libraries that the grown up languages have ...)

http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/pooh-lan/2012/12/11...