[daemianmack]

  Ansible looks to me like the product of a person who looked 
  at Puppet, said something like "ugh Ruby, ew syntax" and  
  made his own thing, without looking deeper.

Before he created Ansible, Michael Dehaan was Puppet's product manager.

[atombender]

I said looks, I was not being literal. I don't know anything about Mr. Michael Dehaan and I'm not going to speculate.

[jamtur01]

He was the product manager some years ago and very briefly.