I recently had to learn Ruby, at least, in the form of IronRuby. So far, my experience with it is good. Admittedly at first I thought that it was just another language, but after trying it out, it actually felt good working on it.
I have to point out though, the biggest misconception by the more fanatical supporters of Ruby. Ruby seems to be "agile" language. Thanks to the fantastically successful Basecamp application, Ruby has become the champion of agile software development.
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but agile is about people over tools. Ruby is just a tool. A good tool, but it's still a tool. Improperly used, it can still result in a horrible project. Bad Ruby code is still bad code. Hell, it may even be worse than bad COBOL code.
At least most of the COBOL code out there, 5 billion or so lines, works.
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