Ruby and Python

[Just van Rossum]

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> I've just started looking at Ruby, mainly because my curiosity got the
> better of me. So far I'm underwhelmed. I can see how it might appeal to Perl
> users but not Python users. I'll try to present my finding to the newsgroup
> after I've had more time to give it a fair shake.

One odd thing I came across: while in Ruby apparently everything is an
instance (no difference between types and classes) I read somewhere that
functions and methods are _not_ first class citizens.

Just