What I Learned From Java That Makes Me a Better Programmer When I Use Ruby

by Joey deVilla on January 4, 2008

One lesson that Nathan Weizenbaum learned from Java that makes him a better Ruby programmer: “I learned what I was abstracting. I learned what blocks are, why dynamic typing is useful, what it means to redefine an operator. And I learned it from Java, by doing without.”

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