Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Wrapping Up Ruby

We have covered a lot of ground in this chapter. I hope you can see the comparison to Mary Poppins. After speaking at dozens of Ruby conferences, I have heard scores of people profess their love for Ruby because it is fun. To an industry that grew up embracing the C family of languages including C++, C#, Java, and others, Ruby is a breath of fresh air.

Core Strengths

Ruby’s pure object orientation allows you to treat objects in a uniform and consistent way. The duck typing allows truer polymorphic designs based on what an object can support rather than that object’s inheritance hierarchy. And Ruby’s modules and open classes let a programmer attach behavior to syntax that goes beyond the typical method or instance variable definitions ...