Yea, its really good to know 2 to 3 languages at best. Specially since Biggie is doing Ruby and RoR, we can use that for IM or even Python for certain tasks. The best part is they can be inter-communicated (donno about Ruby, but most probly will be able to).
Good idea about the IM though!
I was getting scared thinking how the helll are we going to make that!! lol
(On a side note: The GUI can be built using another lang (wxPython or C/VB), and the networking part on ruby...just a shitty comment lol, some computer programmer must input on this.)