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"Ruby is the ultimate in object-oriented languages," There is this small thing called smalltalk. With that said, claiming Ruby is the ultimate 'enlightenment
by plinkplonk 12y ago
"Ruby is the ultimate in object-oriented languages,"
There is this small thing called smalltalk.
With that said, claiming Ruby is the ultimate 'enlightenment language' is a little mindboggling. I vote for javascript ;-)
That said, it is a great article. Matt Might writes very well and has a lot of insight. Fwiw he doesn't include Ruby in his list of advanced languages, but does call it a 'hot' language.
- vinceguidry 12y agoI didn't say it was the ultimate enlightenment language, I said it was the ultimate object-oriented language. There's no such thing as an ultimate approach to enlightenment. Smalltalk's nice, but Ruby's nicer. There's a reason one's more popular than the other.
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- pjmlp 12y agoSmalltalk was already out of the scene when Rails happened, nothing to do with Ruby features.
- rimantas 12y ago> nothing to do with Ruby features. How about this part: > Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his > favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) > to form a new language that balanced functional programming > with imperative programming. Taken from https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/ . Being out of the scene does not mean that it could no longer inspire.
- Igglyboo 12y agoYes and that reason is Rails, not because ruby is more "enlightened" than smalltalk.
- vinceguidry 12y agoWhy didn't they write Rails in Smalltalk?
- rdc12 12y agoArgument based on popularity doesn't prove your notion, it is nothing other then the fact that it is popular. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/bandwagon https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/bandwagon