It's a bit banal though, of course you should learn something valuable. Isn't that what your mother's been telling you all these years? I think the better les

It's a bit banal though, of course you should learn something valuable. Isn't that what your mother's been telling you all these years? I think the better lesson which is directly applicable to all coders is "question your assumptions". To me this was a huge benefit of learning ruby as it happens to be one of the easiest languages to pull your assumptions right out from under you.