Why Ruby?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:50:21 -0500, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

> In a less extreme view, it is not about controlling stupidity, but  
> controlling creativity (a view popular amongst "artist"/"painter"  
> programmers). So here the programmers are not dumb, but still they need  
> to be kept in line with rules, constraints, specifications, strict APIs,  
> etc.. You can't do anything too strange or out of the ordinary, and the  
> language is a reflection of that, especially with regards to  
> restrictions on dynamic typing (and other dynamic stuff like runtime  
> class modification).

Those aren't bugs, they are the artistic qualities of my program!  It's a  
statement on the political bias against bugs, I mean most people kill bugs  
without a second thought!

;)

-Steve