Anecdotal, of course, but: often the most elegant solutions I see in my job are from programmers coming from Ruby. It is interesting to see how different progra

Anecdotal, of course, but: often the most elegant solutions I see in my job are from programmers coming from Ruby. It is interesting to see how different programming languages can shape our mindset. A big part is those good solutions are those little lambda-receiving functions that do all the heavy lifting without imposing a lot of boilerplate. Not too many of them, of course. IMO this kind of thing is where the “getting things done” and “good architecture” meet.