[blasdel]

Exactly, Python wins.

There's a massive gulf between Matz and Guido as far as decision making, even when you only look at the Languages and not their imperfect Implementations. Just for example, look at how executable objects work:

* Guido made a hard+pragmatic decision that there are only Functions. Methods and Class Methods are functions that take their binding as an explicit argument (which is inferenced when called with the . selector). Lambdas cannot contain statements and simply yield to a Function. Functions are recursively defined as objects with a __call__ method.

* Matz tried to make everything hugs all around and the result is that there's no straightforward Function type -- there are Methods, Blocks, Procs, Lambdas (1); which yield into one another bafflingly and retain scope in untoward ways. This makes some simple use cases very straightforward, but at a terrible cost.

(1). Are there more? The lack of certainty with which I can answer this question is alarming.