Why do people want to program in Ruby anyhow?
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Just picking up on what you said about Ruby being simple to code in. Has anyone found that the more you program in Ruby the more you realise how complex the language really is? Obviously, I have a special perspective on this as we’ve had to come to Ruby from ’two sides’ - that is: first we program in Ruby and secondly, we program tools to support Ruby. That has necessarily meant that we’ve had to explore some of the twisty-turny, gnarly little bumps and offshots of the language that, possibly, many Ruby programmers never see. The end result is that it is now my opinion that, contrary to my initial impressions, Ruby is, in fact, quite a complicated language.
Has anyone else discovered that? Or is this something that I’ve become aware of due to the rather unusual nature of my relationship with Ruby?
Huw