Ruby is arguably more OOP than Python, but I'd claim that doesn't help much in the scientific programming / machine learning use case. It might even hurt a lit

Ruby is arguably more OOP than Python, but I'd claim that doesn't help much in the scientific programming / machine learning use case. It might even hurt a little. This kind of code is naturally expressed in "functions and data" rather than "objects" (data being vectors, matrices, etc.). And I say this as someone who uses objects in most of my code! (which is not scientific code)