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08 Apr '12, 4pm

DABlog Meta, shmeta: learning Ruby horizontally

Meta, shmeta: learning Ruby horizontally January 7th, 2007 One of the great accomplishments of Ruby is that its object and class model bring about a wonderful unity and simplicity. Even things that might seem like they should be hard or obscure are actually very transparent, once you have the hang of how the model works. Unfortunately, there’s a trend toward drawing an increasingly sharp line between regular programming and “metaprogramming” in Ruby discussions, where metaprogramming is understood to mean… well, I’m not sure what it’s understood to mean, the way it’s getting used in connection with Ruby, and that’s the problem. There’s no natural separation between programming and metaprogramming in Ruby, and no reason to make life harder by breaking them apart. The thrust of Ruby’s design is to dissolve complexities, so that even things that appear to be “wizardly” or ful...

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