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been thinking about the programming language ruby

i would use it for more if it wasn't associated with so much webshit

not sure if this is a poor reason to structure one's programming language preferences, but much of my desire to adopt a language is based on how i like its syntax.

for me, whatever features or power a language has is secondary to the beauty of its syntax

makes me think--i wonder what good purpose ruby could be put towards?

@vidak one thing that made me rethink how I feel about Ruby is when a computer science professor mentioned that it is probably the purest OOP language out there, more so than stuff like Java, and I agree

this shows why I don't like it, because I don't like OOP, but it does make it very unique as a language for filling that niche