> What’s quite elegant about Ruby is how consistently it is implemented using its own simple set of core features, with very little magic or syntactic sugar. H

> What’s quite elegant about Ruby is how consistently it is implemented using its own simple set of core features, with very little magic or syntactic sugar. Honestly, I don't think this has much to do with Ruby. This a consequence of using reduce or any other higher-order functions, which come from functional programming, and are now available in almost all modern multi-paradigm programming languages (including Python and Haskell). I you like this kind of constructs, you should definitely learn a functional programming language, you'll love it.