"Ruby is the ultimate in object-oriented languages,"
There is this small thing called smalltalk.
With that said, claiming Ruby is the ultimate 'enlightenment language' is a little mindboggling. I vote for javascript ;-)
That said, it is a great article. Matt Might writes very well and has a lot of insight. Fwiw he doesn't include Ruby in his list of advanced languages, but does call it a 'hot' language.
I didn't say it was the ultimate enlightenment language, I said it was the ultimate object-oriented language. There's no such thing as an ultimate approach to enlightenment.
Smalltalk's nice, but Ruby's nicer. There's a reason one's more popular than the other.
> Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his
> favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp)
> to form a new language that balanced functional programming
> with imperative programming.
There is this small thing called smalltalk.
With that said, claiming Ruby is the ultimate 'enlightenment language' is a little mindboggling. I vote for javascript ;-)
That said, it is a great article. Matt Might writes very well and has a lot of insight. Fwiw he doesn't include Ruby in his list of advanced languages, but does call it a 'hot' language.