Reflections on Programming Language Preferences: From Ruby to Scheme
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Summary
The author reflects on their changing relationship with the Ruby programming language, which was their first programming love due to its playfulness, conciseness, and elegance. They reveal that Scheme was actually their first true programming understanding, learning recursion before loops and immutability before mutability. The piece expresses a shift in preference and includes criticism of Python as being inferior to both Ruby and Scheme.
Key quotes
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I kind of lied earlier when I said that Ruby was my first love as a programmer
The first time I started to really grok programming was when I learned a little bit of Scheme
I learned recursion before for loops, and I learned immutability before mutability
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