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I did a quick Ruby version just to serve a basis for my point:

The reason I posted that was precisely because of the point where Arc shines: no inline HTML. But in practice, I want to avoid putting my presentation logic inline with my programming logic anyway.

And I fear that's the problem with the challenge; it seems to be highlighting the wrong kind of simplicity. I could add a few utility functions to make Ruby able to generate that HTML with a tiny amount of code, but I wouldn't ever actually use those functions in a real program.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I just implemented a pseudo-concision-obsessive "library" so see how a Ruby version might look:

http://pastie.org/750269

I'll note that Rails does have things like those that are often used templates.

Another edit: Moved code samples to pastie for readability.

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use Continuity; use HTML::AsSubs; Continuity->new->loop; # This starts the webserver sub main { my $request = shift; my $p = 'foo'; $request->print( aform( $p )->as_HTML ); my $foo = $request->next->param( $p ); $request->print( w_link()->as_HTML ); $request->next->print( "You said: $foo" ); } sub aform { form( input( { type => 'text', name => $_[0] } ), input( { type => 'submit'} ) ); } sub w_link { a( { href => '.' }, 'Click Here' ) }