As a programmer who knows both languages, while I like regex as a native type with it's own notation, I don't miss ruby blocks at all. Most Ruby code I see abus

As a programmer who knows both languages, while I like regex as a native type with it's own notation, I don't miss ruby blocks at all. Most Ruby code I see abuses blocks pretty badly instead of refactoring behaviour into a function, and soon you have a code base littered with the same algorithm over and over again. I think Guido has a point on making lambdas one-liners exclusively. Also, Ruby programmers talk about how readable Ruby is, but I disagree. The lack of consistency between using parenthesis or not, how to separate arguments, or even string formating syntax makes reading Ruby code wrote by someone else much more prone to "WTF" moments than Python.