Another Good Reason to Learn Python in 2008/2009

Per the Pragmatic Programmer directive, I've been learning a language a year for the last couple of years... Python is very likely the next language I grok:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-google-app-engine-our-new.html

At the same time though, I am focused on Ruby development still now. My goals are to master building and deploy highly scalable Ruby-based web apps in Rails, Merb... on top of Mongrel, Nginx... on the cloud.

Hopefully Google will support Ruby's open source efforts and help push that direction too, with additional languages on their innovative AppEngine.