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Blog Entry: I Hate Ruby
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Blog Entry: I Hate Ruby
2005 September 11, 01:40 PM
I've decided that I hate the Ruby programming language. To demonstrate
this hatred, I installed Ruby to see how badly I could mangle and
abuse it. It turns out Ruby is fairly abuseable. I've always hated
that 57/42 is 1 in many programming languages (integer division my
foot!-- I have no problem with 57 div 42 being 1, but not 57/42), so I
mangled Ruby into having 57/42 evaluate properly (to
1.35714285714286). I then coerced Ruby into understanding that
"42"+"57" is 99, not "4257" (concat or "." is for string appends, "+"
is for numbers!). I then "explained" to Ruby that I've been using
"echo" to mean "print" for ages (PHP), and didn't plan on changing
that. Ruby buckled under nicely. Ruby is almost (but not quite) a
meta-programming language-- my mangled version of Ruby is quite
different from the version of Ruby that ships, and I have more abuses
in mind. I can't stop using the Ruby language-- I hate it far too
much.