The delta between Python and Ruby is way, way smaller than the Ruby community seems to think it is. You are aware that everything is an object in Python, too, right? The idea that that isn't true still seems to be knocking around the Ruby community. Everything he said about Python applies precisely to Ruby (or fails to apply in exactly the same way if it is a bad argument), because there's hardly any difference that matters to a newbie.
"But, but, len is a function! And you can't monkeypatch the base classes even though you can monkeypatch everything else!"
Yes, please, by all means burden your neophyte with that tirade. They'll really appreciate it while they're trying to figure out what an "if" statement really does or why calling a function with the wrong capitalization doesn't work.
"But, but, len is a function! And you can't monkeypatch the base classes even though you can monkeypatch everything else!"
Yes, please, by all means burden your neophyte with that tirade. They'll really appreciate it while they're trying to figure out what an "if" statement really does or why calling a function with the wrong capitalization doesn't work.