Robin, If you look at ruby from a polyglot programmer= view of the major paradigms consider this. Ruby is essentially three major= paradigms modeled after three major programming languages, actually more b= ut lets keep it simple.

Ruby's object oriented is modeled after smalltalk; Thoug= h it's marketed as python

Ruby's functional style is = modeled after scheme lisp; Ruby programmers know the value of everything, b= ut the cost of nothing =3D)

Ruby's system programming is modeled after the procedural sh= ell; Basically the c programming language, awk, bourne shell, UNIX regular = expressions Et al. ; This is marketed as Perl( though the %{ literals } cam= e from perl)

Though refactoring (i.e. less tokens =3D=3D faster execution= ) is good to grok and testing aids the practice and is definitely part of t= he software development process it may be also useful to understand Ruby al= so from it's ancestors which further reseach can be seen from languages= and utilities dating back to early days of computer science in the 1950= 9;s

Good luck and enjoy hacking ruby

~Stu
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:33 AM, robin wood = <lists@ruby-fo= rum.com> wrote:

It was watching a video on refactoring from = a recent conference that
made me thing I should really put some effort in and improve my skills a bit.

I'll have a look at both, thanks.

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