Reducto ad absurdum! We're not talking about the same thing with full access to anyone's memory here. We're talking about boundaries that if you have control o

Reducto ad absurdum! We're not talking about the same thing with full access to anyone's memory here. We're talking about boundaries that if you have control over your software should be handled the way you want anyway. The type of flexibility that Ruby allows make it a really interesting language. In 99.999% of cases people never use all these features and it's considered bad form to do so. Ruby is one of those languages that depends a lot on cultural queues to work so well but unlike other languages it doesn't enforce everything on you. It's a tradeoff and it is by no means better than other languages, just different and pleases certain developers more than other languages.