TheOtherDave comments on PSA: Learn to code - Less Wrong

34 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 25 May 2012 06:50PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 26 May 2012 05:55:09AM 1 point [-]

This comes primarily from Ruby treating practically everything as objects.

I love this feature. Apart from allowing some amazing library implementations it just leaves me with a warm tingly feeling inside.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 May 2012 03:50:51PM 1 point [-]

I still have warm memories of, when I was first teaching myself SmallTalk, trying to look up the SmallTalk equivalent of a for loop in a reference chart and being unable to find it, and later discovering that "to: by: do:" was defined as a method on class Integer.

This delighted me in ways difficult to express.