Ryan Bigg asked on twitter what people liked about ruby. My thoughts couldn't be crammed into 140 characters.
Blocks are something special. One minute you're using a less verbose `for` loop, the next you're on your way to thinking about functional programming, and how to hide information and implementation that isn't relevant right now. Apart from that, a lot of what I like are in terms of "It avoids the pitfall X of language Y". * It doesn't require you to declare variable types * (For Rails, not ruby as such) Getting information about database-based objects is done for you, you don't necessarily have to write your own SQL query, like framework-less PHP * Code is somewhat more readable than Perl, and you don't have to worry about whitespace (Python) I also like the ruby community, and its libraries. I must be missing something though. Any thoughts? Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
