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Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto Pat Eyler (2009)

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Computers are not very smart. They don't understand human language, so we have to tell them what to do in a language that both humans and computers can understand.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

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