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> As a person who's dabbled a bit in Rust and Ruby

You say you "dabbled" a bit in Ruby and then proceed to demonstrate your lack of understading of basic Ruby syntax.

In Dwarf Fortress, the lowest possible skill rank other than no skill is dabbling. What does dabbling mean to you?

To me, dabbled means learned the fundamentals of the language but hasn't written real software in it. I would expect a dabbler to have been exposed to class inheritance and primitives such ss symbols.

Isn't "dabbled" just "superficially touched it"?

hence the word "dabbled".

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