Comments on: 10 Things I Hate About Ruby

By: rgz

rgz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:03:01 +0000

1. “constructor is named like class” is a bad idea to begin with.
2. You are missing the point of dynamic languages…
3. SORT OF agree, methods should automatically return self unless there are explicit returns. But you will probably hate that too.
4. There will always be something in the global namespace.
5. Please tell me you are suggesting “print” or “println” else fail.
6. Fail, go back to school, take a CS course.
7. Please tell me you are suggesting “elif” else fail, er… just fail.
8. First sane complain, that few people use it just makes it more likely to bite you by surprise.
9. Fail and privateness is a bad idea to begin with, too, just embrace dynamic programming.
10. No idea what you talking about.

By: qwerty

qwerty — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:50:12 +0000

“Great, great post. I have been stuck in Ruby hell (RoR, real suffering) and I agree with most of your top ten. There are some good things, but be dammed their are too many hates.”

Nearly everything in his top 10 list is incorrect.

If you do not understand weak vs strongly typed and static and dynamic typing, then you have no business commenting, just like the original author.

By: Merlion

Merlion — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:31:59 +0000

Great, great post. I have been stuck in Ruby hell (RoR, real suffering) and I agree with most of your top ten. There are some good things, but be dammed their are too many hates.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:51 +0000

why do you hate me?

By: anon

anon — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:11:47 +0000

Then write your own ‘PERFECT’ language.

By: Sudipta Mukherjee

Sudipta Mukherjee — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:49:00 +0000

I completely agree with Christopher Burkey.
At this point of time, We don’t need any more new languages. We have enough already. All new languages popping up can actually be replaced by ideally designed APIs.

By: DUDE

DUDE — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:38:41 +0000

RUBY SYNAX IS THE WIN. NOT… It should have followed C’s. Ruby has some usefulness, but… PEOPLE USE JAVA INSTED!

By: Bian Xi

Bian Xi — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:05:06 +0000

#6: Disagree. Can not imagine a ruler starts at one.

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By: Pedro Penduko

Pedro Penduko — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:18:57 +0000

Ruby would have been perfect if it followed the C style syntax the way Java did. I realy miss { }