Stop jumping to conclusions, and stop throwing around buzzwords.
GoF is a (somewhat C++-centric) book about design patterns that's completely unrelated to the discussion at hand, may not be the best resource to learn about design patterns and has nothing to do with CS.
TAoCP is more like an encyclopedia; actually reading through even one chapter takes a significant amount of effort (if you want to get anything out of it). Try it. (Yes, I've worked with it.)
K&R is a 27 years old, thoroughly outdated book about C. There are better options[1].
[1] Try the 16 years old book "Expert C Programming" by Peter van Linden, which is excellent, even though outdated too.
Because it's smug and adds nothing to the conversation.
I don't see any evidence that the Ruby community suffers more than any other development community from this sort of thing — that is, the ones where high performance is not the biggest concern, of course.
GoF is a (somewhat C++-centric) book about design patterns that's completely unrelated to the discussion at hand, may not be the best resource to learn about design patterns and has nothing to do with CS.
TAoCP is more like an encyclopedia; actually reading through even one chapter takes a significant amount of effort (if you want to get anything out of it). Try it. (Yes, I've worked with it.)
K&R is a 27 years old, thoroughly outdated book about C. There are better options[1].
[1] Try the 16 years old book "Expert C Programming" by Peter van Linden, which is excellent, even though outdated too.