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user-inactivated  ·  3670 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Most programming languages can be used for most things, but what languages are best for what kind of tasks?

Ruby is a disgustingly simple language. "Gets.chomp," kill me please.





Meriadoc  ·  3670 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I kind of love how nasty it is. I could write a dirty as sin script as easily and quickly as I want and it'll run. It's obscene, but fuck if it doesn't work.