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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:08PM (#12471088)
I don't think this article is as great as a lot of people do. Most of this should be obvious to anyone using ruby, nowadays. It might have been great at the time, but I don't think so much now.

But then again I thought "The Meme Hustler" was rubbish (well, actually, I think the reasoning would have been okay, but I thought the premise was totally, utterly, removed from reality), so I think it's safe to say me and Steve have a different taste in articles.

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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by steveklabnik on Saturday September 10, 2016 @08:23PM (#12471500)
I don't actually know how I feel about the contents of this article, but it _did_ generate a lot of lively discussion and made a lot of people think. So in that regard, I feel that it's a success.
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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @08:26PM (#12471508)
Fair 'nuff. That is a major benefit. Steve Yegge's response is way more interesting than the article itself.
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