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by omoikane 537 days ago
Ruby is my go to language for short "fun" programs, as there are many places where it optimized for development experience (such as the new "it" feature). One of the committers, Yusuke Endoh, clearly understood the joy of coding in itself as opposed to being means to an end, and has authored a book on esoteric programming:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4774176435

Before Ruby, my preferred fun language was Perl. Ruby is like Perl but without having to type $ all the time. I have never used Rails.