Python vs Ruby holy war thread

Last week I learned Python. It's not perfect but it's pretty damn cool.
This week I'm starting on Ruby. I've just encountered blocks and I would approve if someone would answer this: are blocks merely an ugly kludge because the author did not know about lambda expressions, or can they do something lambdas can't?

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Mostly a matter of syntax. Ruby's syntax sucks, but its feature set is somewhere in the middle of "pretty fucking similar" and "exactly the same" as Python, at least for today's Python.

WTF, now I realize I'm replying to McJesus from a very long time ago. I remember him, but he hasn't been around, or he stopped being a name/tripfag. After reading >>53 , I'm glad to find he's still around, though he has become a Haskellfag ;__;

I miss the old times, when you achieved satori with LISP.