Raganwald is one of the most prominent Ruby programmers I know of, so I would say it's unlikely he hates Ruby. And he has a point. While Ruby is certainly more

Raganwald is one of the most prominent Ruby programmers I know of, so I would say it's unlikely he hates Ruby. And he has a point. While Ruby is certainly more coherent than Java, it's clearly less coherent than io or Lisp or smalltalk.