[TriLUG] Teaching Kids to Program

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:57:25 -0400
Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Actually a language I debated putting on the list was Ruby.  For a
> lot of the reasons as well.  But I have done even less with Ruby
> myself.
> 
> Ken

I went through a Ruby phase for about 2 years. It has intelligent
defaults that speed things up. At first, it seems like a language with
the least surprising behavior.

All I can say is the longer I used Ruby, the less I liked it. Their
iterators seemed quirky as hell. Their closures were almost
unfathomable. In a lot of places, they used operators where function
names would have been much more explanatory. After a couple years, I
moved on.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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