Comments on: 10 Things I Hate About Ruby

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.

By: 5 Things I Hate About Ruby « Devi Web Development

5 Things I Hate About Ruby « Devi Web Development — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:18:22 +0000

[...] 3rd, 2007 at 5:19 am (language theory, syntax, ruby) I read an article at The Cafes about all the things he hates about Ruby. I love Ruby, but there are a few things I would do [...]

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 { }

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:53:50 +0000

Wow, a full year of comments. In spite of multiple comments correcting the author’s failure to understand the difference between new and initialize, the incorrect point remains posted. In spite of multiple comments contradicting the claim that “[t]hereâ€™s no access in-between public and private”, the incorrect sentence stands. These things are not matters of preference or opinion. The fact that these misconceptions continue to be referenced by others is what’s really Not A Good Sign.

By: BusinessRx Reading List : The Way The Wind Blows

BusinessRx Reading List : The Way The Wind Blows — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:29:14 +0000

[...] Of course, your approach won’t make every user happy. You’ll still need to make trade offs. In “10 Things I Hate About Ruby”, Elliote Rusty Harold (author of Java I/O) is surprised by some of the conventions in the king of [...]

By: Me

Me — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:26:09 +0000

Somebody finally put there money where there mouth is.

I hate ruby and I have been using it for 8 months.

It is ridiculous.
I personally do not recommend it.

Now I am back in Java and loving the simple things.

Ruby has this weird following of kids.
Congratulations to Ruby on Rails for reinventing the wheel.

By: yeago

yeago — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:47:32 +0000

301 -> 10-nags-about-perl

By: zem

zem — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:02:35 +0000

By the way I love ruby;)
It would be nice to see access modifiers for instance variables though!
Another thing is the difference between class and def. I believe it should be the same as in JavaScript. Just def would do:)
Next ofcourse, arrays should start from 1!

Methods/classes names are poorly designed at the moment! Documentation is fragmented and hard to find.
Not mention the slooooooow interpriter.

But as I said, RUBY is the best language I used so far!
SMALLTALK looks better but I’m just started learning it.
Could someone point me why RUBY better than SMALLTALK, or otherwise?

By: zem

zem — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:31:56 +0000

Hey, its magic!!!
concat is working!
Yuppe!
Maybe ruby or rails have changed their minds.
I didn’t change a single bit of code by the way.
Maybe when I was writing previous comment, the GC….
Ah, what a heck! It doesn’t matter, it happens not the first time!
I’m starting to understand what ruby magic means:)