What's the difference between python and Ruby?

Question

both programs language have similar scripts it seems. But unless I'm missing something, why are they 2 different languages? (first time learning programing)

Answer 1

They are similar , and both have huge standard library.

Answer 2

Python and Ruby are general purpose languages just like C,C++ etc the difference however being that they are interpreted languages instead of being compiled. You could do anything a general language could do using these languages. ... Python and Ruby are programming languages.

Answer 3

When Matz created Ruby, he pointed out that Python is not a fully OOP language, then. And he wanted to create a nice OOP language.
As for the most noticeable similarity, Python and Ruby are both designed keeping in mind human aspects of code rather than machine aspect. Ruby was even designed to be powerful as Perl and beautiful as Python.

Languages aren't created only for the sake of appearing different. That said there are many differences too. Both Python and Ruby have contributed hugely to the programming ecosystem.