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   by kab 16y ago

   Robert Martin, to my knowledge, was never a Smalltalker, and received an enormous amount of flack in the Smalltalk community for making a lot negative, uninformed statements about Smalltalk at that conference. Uncle Bob started, by his own
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   by kab 16y ago

   Because Smalltalk is superior, and Rubyists are ignorant of its superiority, and that ignorance results in inferior reinvention of already-existing wheels.
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   by kab 16y ago

   "Blocks are actually a great example: what matz did was realize that often, you're only passing one anonymous function to another, and so he added special syntax to make it nicer." This argument, that you almost never need to pass in more t
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   by kab 16y ago

   "It's relatively easy to read" Not as readable as Smalltalk. "...and doesn't punish you with too many horrible compile errors" Yes, it absolutely does. In fact, Ruby is probably the most syntactically complicated language after Perl and C++
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   by kab 16y ago

   "There are many languages that would be good for teaching, and Ruby is just fine for that." What makes Ruby great for teaching, particularly for teaching children?
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   by kab 16y ago

   Hackety Hack is a perfect example of what's wrong with the Ruby community. Yes, I know Hackety was created by _why, and everyone here loves _why, and the goal of teaching children to program is undeniably laudable, but that doesn't change t