my sense is that ruby has a perl problem. yes, you can write very beautiful things in it, and if you follow the idioms you're generally safe. but there's way to

my sense is that ruby has a perl problem. yes, you can write very beautiful things in it, and if you follow the idioms you're generally safe. but there's way too much rope to hang yourself with, too much "magic", and no way to reliably refactor large codebases. As a language, it doesn't scale well into "programming in the large" unless you really know what you're doing, and most frankly don't.