Ten Things I Hate About Ruby
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Lists ten concrete complaints about Ruby and why each matters: Perl-style globals change core behavior and are avoidable (use require 'English' instead); procs/lambdas/stabby lambdas duplicate semantics and confuse metaprogramming; blocks always close over context and can retain state; reflection methods (instance_methods) give surprising results and arity reporting is weak; rubygems loading varies across machines despite rvm/bundler; ordered-hash work by nobu nakada proves no big cost; YAML and literal initializers bypassing new cause portability and extensibility problems.
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