[Buttons840]

I agree with the objective observations, but subjectively I prefer Python.

Python's OO does feel slapped on. As a Python user I've come to see object-oriented code as just some syntax to organize data and functions. To me, it's all functions, always has been.

I'm curious to know if you have similar thoughts biased towards objects? Do you view functional code as just a way of creating and organizing object-like concepts? I have heard that Ruby is quite pure in its philosophy and approach to object orientation, like SmallTalk, but I don't know either language well enough to fully appreciate this way of thinking.

[MatthiasPortzel]

I think Ruby has a super interesting middle ground. It’s strictly OOP in that everything is an object or a method (or a block), but because of implicit method calls (no parens), implicit return values, ease of use creating anonymous blocks passed to methods, and meta programming allowing dynamic control flow (i.e. calling a method by name at runtime), it has a lot of the elegance of writing functional code. You end up with small, unit-testable, methods that you can chain together, concise syntax, and meta programming that is second only to Lisp macros. It feels a little bit like if you asked a functional programmer to design an OOP language.