Ruby is the first language I learned (apart from dabbling with Visual Basic as a kid). I still reach for it to actually get things done. One thing I always appreciated about it was the consistency of everything being an object and how that allows you to just chain methods together. Kind of reminds me of Lisp in it's consistency (although in Lisp everything is data or a list, not an object). Later I dabbled in Smalltalk (Pharo) just for fun to try to understand what inspired Ruby's object model.
I've tried Python, hated the inconsistency of it, but then again I never tried any C family language before learning Ruby. Calling Each then feeding it a block feels more natural and consistent than a for loop IMO, even if for loops are the standard 'programming' way of doing it. It does make sense to use it as an analogy to describe the differences between the languages.
I've tried Python, hated the inconsistency of it, but then again I never tried any C family language before learning Ruby. Calling Each then feeding it a block feels more natural and consistent than a for loop IMO, even if for loops are the standard 'programming' way of doing it. It does make sense to use it as an analogy to describe the differences between the languages.