> Python has all the same features and allows you to write code that is equally horrible (or powerful), but it benefits from a cultural bias in favor of simplic

> Python has all the same features and allows you to write code that is equally horrible (or powerful), but it benefits from a cultural bias in favor of simplicity. It's not a cultural bias. It's a critical difference in the language designs. In python, monkeypatching is scoped to a module. In Ruby, monkeypatching is global to the execution environment. So in Python, you can look at the source code for a module in isolation and deterministically reason about what it does. In Ruby, you can't. Because you can't know what the execution environment will be. IMO, it's the main reason why Ruby projects become harder to manage as they grow. Somewhere, someone is monkeypatching, and reasoning about the code becomes harder and less local. I spent 2 years with Ruby and will never use it again if I can help it.