What exactly do you think the purpose of having different programming languages is? The popularity and usefulness of Ruby’s block-based control flow, which you

What exactly do you think the purpose of having different programming languages is? The popularity and usefulness of Ruby’s block-based control flow, which you seem to take issue with, is almost certainly largely responsible for the adoption of lambdas in… basically every modern language, not to mention being backported to existing languages like C# and Java. Frankly your hot take is terrible. C was an amazing language, but there are an infinite number of practical and effective ways to improve upon it. Particularly having just admitted that you’ve never actually used the syntax in question it’s honestly astonishing that your first instinct is to jump straight to posting about how much better the C approach is. Hell, you’d be hard-pressed these days to find a modern language that uses C-style `for` loops. They might say `for` on the tin, but they’re much closer to Ruby-style enumerators than they are to C-style setup-condition-increment control flow. With, of course, the caveat that that’s all they ever can be since they’re keyword syntax rather than just a method. What a sad world this would be if everything interesting in programming was discovered by K&R in the 1970s.