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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: What's Wrong With Ruby?
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”I did not find Ruby particularly 'elegant', or its syntax particularly obvious. Much of it seemed ad hoc, thrown together, in particular when there were several different ways of doing something, and it seemed to be the philosophy of the language to provide all of them. I did not find its constructs as intuitive and natural as claimed, trying out simple coding examples proved as frustrating when things didn't do what you'd suppose they'd do...” If I tell you (...)