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  @drgss. Yes. Typographically clean. Compare Ruby to Java for instance and you'll see that Ruby does a great job getting rid of excessive semicolons, curly braces, parenthesis, etc. There's a real flexibility with how you write Ruby code so instead of just writing code that the computer can understand you can write code that looks clean and better communicates to other humans what your intent is. There's a great quote from the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: "Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

  I have a deep appreciation for clean coding. When I work with other designers and they hand me code that is concise and legible it draws my instant respect.

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  • gah - got there before melukus_W
  • Ruby is great... and fun, and elegant, as long as you are within it's boundaries.... otherwise SUCKSvaxorcist

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