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Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
My little theory is that the concept of ‘imprinting’ in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its parent...
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Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
Wired · 12 min
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