Comment by jfb

This is a perfectly cromulent article, but as someone relatively new to Ruby, I don't see the beauty. Perhaps I've spent too much time with the airless asceticism of, say, Scheme, but Ruby just reads a mess to me. Too many synonyms, too much implicit behavior. There's too much language for my taste. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder &c., &c., &c., and I wouldn't deny that there is a certain pragmatic attraction (even I like to get shit working). But beauty?