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Ruby quote time... Ruby is designed to be human-o...

wtaysom

02/25/2020, 9:10 AM

Ruby quote time... Ruby is designed to be human-oriented. It reduces the burden of programming. It tries to push jobs back to machines. You can accomplish more tasks with less work, in smaller yet readable code. (Matz) Ruby is a very free-form community. Matz is the most benevolent dictator I've had the pleasure to work with, and most of the community are true free-thinking artists. It's like the hippie commune of the language world. (Charles Nutter) Ruby seems so self-explanatory to me. It makes it almost boring; you try to focus on Ruby and you wind up talking about some problem domain instead of the language. (Steve Yegge)

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Stefan

02/25/2020, 9:48 AM

I have to admit that in my Ruby days, this was the only language where it happened to me surprisingly often that I would just write a piece of code without looking at the documentation thinking “I have no idea but I feel like this is how that should work” — and it did.

wtaysom

02/25/2020, 1:02 PM

Ruby is so delightfully unsound: perpetually punting on precision and completeness, favoring a sort of joy and ease.

wtaysom

02/25/2020, 1:31 PM

For example, here's one that broke me — just now. After writing it thousands of times, I cannot type this idiom anymore:

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hash_mapping_x_to_fx = Hash[xs.map{|x| [x, f(x)]]

From now on, I'm going with:

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hash_mapping_x_to_fx = xs.hap{|x| f(x)}

Remember "Ruby was a Lisp originally, in theory." So the definition, for those unfamiliar, can be simple as:

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module Enumerable
  def hap
    Hash[map{|x| [x, yield(x)]}]
  end
end

wtaysom

02/25/2020, 1:37 PM

Certainly other languages have similar capabilities especially now that Ruby is getting to be about thirty.

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