People are different, so different things click with how they think. I would likely not be a programmer if it weren’t for Ruby and it doing things different.

People are different, so different things click with how they think. I would likely not be a programmer if it weren’t for Ruby and it doing things different. I had tried to learn programming for years (JavaScript, Python, Java, C#), none of it stuck or progressed beyond following tutorials and one of the things I had serious issues with was negation. Then I came across Ruby and it just kinda clicked into place like no other language had. With Ruby I was able to do my own things within a month. Now I don’t really have a problem picking up other languages anymore. But there’s others out there right now struggling to learn programming and there should be as many programming languages doing things different as possible to increase the chance that they come across one that is obvious for the way they think. This idea of there should only be one way of doing things is poison in my opinion.