I would wholeheartedly agree that the object model confers a large advantage to Ruby; I hadn't considered your Python point but you're absolutely right - there

I would wholeheartedly agree that the object model confers a large advantage to Ruby; I hadn't considered your Python point but you're absolutely right - there are demonstrably fewer ways to solve certain problems. I sometimes wonder what Python would look like if it were easier to differentiate between an attribute lookup and a method call.