Everything in that list made me think "make Ruby less like Perl and more like Clojure" until I saw "kill symbols" and did a double-take. Symbols are awesome, th

Everything in that list made me think "make Ruby less like Perl and more like Clojure" until I saw "kill symbols" and did a double-take. Symbols are awesome, they are perfect for map/hash keys. Symbols are from Lisp. Why kill symbols? They are even garbage collected now.