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Re:An Interview with the Creator of Ruby (2001) by flavio81 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:01AM (#15458465)
>It seems the language is not this cutting edge technology it was once.

Was it really cutting edge? I understood it as an improved OOP-only Perl. Rails, on the other hand, did knock me out the first time I saw it.

I guess few languages can be called 'cutting edge', perhaps the ML family including Haskell and (yes, after all these years) the Lisp dialects.

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Re:An Interview with the Creator of Ruby (2001) by goatlover on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:41PM (#15459255)
Well, they were cutting edge decades ago, it just took mainstream programming languages a long time to catch up (sort of). For example, you see macros in Elixir, Julia and Crystal, which are all newer languages.
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