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Thinking out loud: could this desire for "cleverness" stem from the fact that most Ruby programmers work on webapps?

• gaius 18y ago
  This is purely my personal experience, mind, but I have observed that Ruby users tend to be younger and webbier and employed mainly to code, and Python users tend to be older and employed to do other things, of which coding is a subset. This explains the cultural differences; Python users have been burnt before by unmaintainable codebases and are determined not to make the same mistake twice. Also, as Python users (again, in my experience) tend not to be primarily programmers, they aren't impressed by clever coding tricks.