* Everything in Python feels like a symbol table hack. >It isn't bad at all. (And does not really matter) * First-class symbols. >Ok, but python has first cl

* Everything in Python feels like a symbol table hack. >It isn't bad at all. (And does not really matter) * First-class symbols. >Ok, but python has first class functions. * Blocks and lambdas. I've read GvR's take on this. >GvR is right. * Method definitions in Ruby don't need to accept a "self" argument. >It isn't bad at all. (And does not really matter) * Ruby has first-class Regexps. Python has an "re" library. You know what else has an "re" library? C. > Ruby has private methods. JAva has private methods too. Therefore ruby is bad. And so on... p.s. And if you need oop features why use ruby instead of java?