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Code should be written in the easiest to understand form that both works and provides the necessary performance characteristics. Often that is the form that "newbies" also find easy to understand, for obvious reasons.

I've used Ruby somewhat actively for almost 10 years now and I still hate it when people barf out a bunch of Ruby-specific shorthand and think they're clever for doing so. Write it in the simplest form that works. I don't care if it takes 10 more keystrokes.

I've seen people write fizzbuzz with lambdas and such thinking that it would signal they're super-serious Ruby all-stars, but all it really does is let me know I should keep my distance, because they're going to be writing needlessly convoluted code.