I wouldn't call Python haphazard, it's just a different approach. Ruby was designed from the ground up as an object-oriented language, and the fact that everyth

I wouldn't call Python haphazard, it's just a different approach. Ruby was designed from the ground up as an object-oriented language, and the fact that everything is a method call (message) gives it a touch of consistency. This is different from Python which is a multi-paradigm language. In fact the early releases didn't support objects-oriented programming at all. On the other hand Python may feel more consistent because of the fact that, in contrast to Ruby, there is one obvious way to do something[1]. [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/