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Re:How to name things in programming by techiferous on Monday May 25, 2015 @10:48AM (#9600223)
> The aspect of Ruby that frustrates me the most is over-use of anonymous blocks when a good name would help me enormously.

Ruby gives you enough tools to write code clearly with good names if you want to. I think your complaint might be more about the particular style of Ruby a certain programmer wrote than the language itself.

Re:How to name things in programming by msellout on Monday May 25, 2015 @11:34AM (#9600416)
Correct, though I find that a language is more about the community and culture than the syntax itself.