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The fact that is was, and is, an incredibly clean and consistent scripting language with many of the best features of Smalltalk and Lisp that competing scriptin
by jhbadger 8y ago
The fact that is was, and is, an incredibly clean and consistent scripting language with many of the best features of Smalltalk and Lisp that competing scripting languages like Perl and Python ignored. I started with Ruby circa 2001 thanks to the Pragmatic Programmer himself, Dave Thomas' "Pickaxe" book, and have yet to write even a single Web app (not my thing; I'm a computational biologist).