The author of this piece is Dave Thomas, who also wrote: "I came across Ruby in 1998 because I was an avid reader of comp.lang.misc (ask your parents). I downl

The author of this piece is Dave Thomas, who also wrote: "I came across Ruby in 1998 because I was an avid reader of comp.lang.misc (ask your parents). I downloaded it, compiled it, and fell in love. As with any time you fall in love, it’s difficult to explain why. It just worked the way I work, and it had enough depth to keep me interested. "Fast forward 15 years. All that time I’d been looking for something new that gave me the same feeling. Then I came across Elixir, a language by José Valim, that puts a humane, Ruby-like syntax on the Erlang VM." So while he loves Ruby he's mostly moved on to Elixir, which he loves partly because of how it builds on the ideas in Ruby.