[HN Gopher] Ruby delights built into the language
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       Ruby delights built into the language
        
       Author : codenamev
       Score  : 97 points
       Date   : 2022-12-20 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | halfmatthalfcat wrote:
       | Point of clarification: how or why did this get boosted to the
       | front page? I still don't understand how this all works after
       | being here for years now.
        
         | o_1 wrote:
         | ruby
        
         | sodapopcan wrote:
         | Someone submitted it and people voted on it.
        
           | halfmatthalfcat wrote:
           | I guess I'm either underestimating how many will upvote
           | middling Ruby articles or the article is better than I
           | realize.
        
             | sodapopcan wrote:
             | Ruby is still relevant and people are still learning it.
             | There's some good stuff in there (though I agree I don't
             | understand the "built in" claim) and stuff I didn't know
             | after getting back into it after being away from it for a
             | couple of years.
        
       | skitter wrote:
       | > There are so many Ruby features built in to the language
       | itself. In the very first episode of this series, we dove deep
       | into the internals of one such gem bundled with Ruby's standard
       | library: IRB. Keeping on theme, I'd like to take some time to
       | explore some other areas of Ruby's source.
       | 
       | From that introduction I though this would be about different
       | parts of the standard library, but it's about files from the
       | example folder. In how far are these built in?
        
         | fknorangesite wrote:
         | > I though this would be about different parts of the standard
         | library, but it's about files from the example folder.
         | 
         | All of the examples given use only the standard lib, afaict.
        
           | horsawlarway wrote:
           | Yet there's almost no real discussion of how to use the
           | standard library here, and a lot of talking about example
           | code that's mostly useless (seriously - why is biorhythm
           | pseudoscience #2, and how is displaying a calendar on the CLI
           | going to help me...?)
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           | I agree with the top post - I have a _very_ different idea
           | about what  "built-in" means than the author of this article.
        
             | Lammy wrote:
             | > seriously - why is biorhythm pseudoscience #2
             | 
             | It's an interactive tutorial on using the `Date` and
             | `OptionParser` classes and printing stuff to stdout.
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             | > and how is displaying a calendar on the CLI going to help
             | me
             | 
             | It's an interactive tutorial on using the `Date` and
             | `GetoptLong` classes and printing stuff to stdout :)
        
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