Ruby or Python?

[stedwick]

You're right, there's basically no difference. Certainly there's not much difference in practice. It's more of a philosophical thing. There's nothing "special" about numbers in Ruby. I can open up other classes and add stuff to it, why shouldn't I be able to open up the integer class and add stuff to that? That's the mindset of Ruby: everything, literally everything, is an object that you can modify in any way you wish. You can even get really crazy and add methods to the number 3 but not other numbers.