> with some fascinating features If you come from PHP or Java anyway.

angersock · on March 4, 2012

yes yes yes

no new genuinely new programming ideas have happened since the 70s and 80s.

Don't be obtuse.

masklinn · on March 4, 2012

There's nothing obtuse about it, new programming ideas have happened since the 70s and 80s but as far as I know none of them is in Ruby, and you're basically assuming tylermenezes does not know about any of the (much older) features which did get into Ruby.

lclarkmichalek · on March 4, 2012

Tell that to STM. Sure most new programming languages are amalgamations of existing concepts, but new stuff does turn up from time to time.

Robin_Message · on March 5, 2012

But STM is from the 80s -- 1986 to be precise.