From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-24T05:36:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is Ruby a favorite among the Agile set?

Ed Howland <ed.howland@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've heard/read that Ruby is a favorite language among the
> Agile/eXtreme Programming set and I am wondering why. [Disclaimer]
> this is for a project I am doing, so thanks in advance for any help.
>
> I do recognize the fact that Ruby lets you write very expressive
> programs making the principle of intentional programming easier. Also,
> there is not a lot of extraneous fluff to get in your way.
>
> But beyond that, why do XPers love it so much. Is it :
>
> Duck Typing
> Meta class programming
> Lisp like features (lambda - closures)
> Smalltalk like features
> Other?

It's probably that Ruby just works and is fun to work with, *while*
providing all these things.

> Ed Howland
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