What I was trying to find is Groovy

In the last blog, I was complaining about Ruby that its support for character encoding is poor and makes it very hard for me to write the web app I was working. I finally found that what I really looked for was Groovy. At first when I ran into this language, I was very very skeptical. I was thinking that it was just another fancy scripting language like Ruby and Python. What turned out is, after spending time with it, that I really like the language. I can leverage everything Java has in this language while being able to write concise program in it. The Grails framework is exceptional as well. With them, I eventually was able to complete the web app very succesfully and very satisfactorily.

With Groovy, I in fact also start using it at work. It is really a great language. It's almost like a glue to everything. I use it to create new flexible components and configurable web service call (this is what I am going to share back to Groovy community - I really hate the current library for web service client).

So anyone interested in it, I strongly recommend you to give it a serious look. I have used Ruby and I know that it's just a highly hyped language. I don't know much about Python so I can't comment on that.