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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: Why do people want to program in Ruby anyhow?
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I mean, after all, it's not as though there is any shortage of programming languages available… You want cross-platform, there's Java. You want ‘pure' object orientation, Smalltalk's the one to go for. You want user-friendly, there's Visual Basic. You want speed, there's C++ or Delphi. You want web applications, PHP's the king of the castle. You want a scripting language, there's Perl or Python… Given so much choice, why do (...)