> python/ruby/etc never denied that the procedural world existed

Interestingly, those two languages use very different mechanisms for top-level functions - although I’m not sure if there’s a significant difference in practice.

Python has true standalone functions, whereas in Ruby’s they’re really methods of a `main` object.

In python you are recommended to use

   if __name__ == '__main__':
      sys.exit (main (sys.argv))