[rlander]

" Why is it in Ruby that everything is an object, even integers, yet as soon as we need to format a date, we all turn into Dijkstra and bust out structured programming?"

" ... functions don’t provide a sufficient amount of power to tackle hard problems."

" objects > functions"

Why start an otherwise well written post with such trollish statements?

There's a lot more substance in the following paragraphs but instead everyone is focusing on those.