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That these functions need to be "taken over" by someone else is exactly what signals existence of a problem. They are taken over in the same way in computer science programming language design was taken over by smart hackers like van Rossum, operating system design was taken over by smart hackers like Torvalds, search engine design was taken over by smart hackers like Brin & Page, etc. - you got the point.
Umm, I would say Guido is seriously harmed by his lack of strong background in programming language theory. I agree he came up with a useful language but I'll take ruby's lisp influenced design over python any day. Heck Larry Wall is up to his ears in programming language theory in the design of perl 6 and I think it will be better for it (though ultimately still focused on being a practical tool).
Torvalds was hardly uninfluenced by academic OS design. He just didn't buy into the overhyped microkernel approach.
Ohh and Brin & Page are straight out of academic research. Their page rank algorithm is pure academic CS. They just applied it.
Could you give me an example where Ruby is clearly superior? I'm currently transitioning from Python to Ruby and would appreciate some strong selling point I haven't noticed yet.