The idiosyncrasies of Ruby, like Perl and JavaScript, lead to a certain kind of brain damage that make it difficult to build correct mental models of computing that can then generalize to other languages.
Unless you’re writing instructions for a Turing machine the impedance mismatch between the real world and “computing” is always going to have idiosyncrasies. You don’t have to like a language to understand its design goals and trade offs. There are some very popular languages with constraints or designs that I feel are absurd,
redundant, or counterproductive but I cannot think of a (mainstream) language where I haven’t seen someone much smarter than me do amazing things.
The language I consider the lamest, biggest impediment to learning computer science is used by some of the smartest people on the planet to build amazing things.
What you may have missed, from the perspective of your vertically scaled horse, is that you compare learning certain models to a mental disability. It makes calling my comment racist similar to the whole pot/kettle thing.
However, I do appreciate reading about such opinions because it offers a peek into the elitism that surrounds programming languages.
Also, as a person from a non-traditional and non-privileged background, Im a little unsure about how to proceed. Shall we cut our losses and move on?
I never understood the hate. Beyond the stranger syntax, it's not terribly different from a language such as Pascal. It's an old imperative language without too much magic (beyond strange syntax sugar).
