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I didn't say that it would change the way you write code, I said it would change the way you approach writing code.

I'm fairly confident that it did. Once you've really learned it, Ruby creates paths in your brain that you will try to follow forever, even if you're not coding in Ruby anymore.

If it didn't, then you never gave Ruby a real chance.

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It's cool that it changed the way you approach writing code, but it's more than a little presumptuous to go and apply that experience beyond yourself. I'm sorry if I didn't see much in ruby that I hadn't already seen, it's not as though ruby is pushing through a new paradigm.

Certainly the "ah-ha" moment for ruby was much less intense than my ah-ha moment of Lisp, Python, SmallTalk and Erlang. And it's definitely more straight forward to me than Haskell, Prolog, OCAML or Forth.

That's just the reality of it.

I think the point your missing is aconbere already traversed those paths in his brain with other languages. Ruby, as far as I know, hasn't introduced any new programming language concepts.

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