Why doesn't /prog/ love ruby?

I mean hey, fix the slowness (it's already as fast as python), and it's a perfect language. The whole "everything as an object" concept and easy to understand syntax makes it both flexible and simple.

And having everything as an object makes even lambdas able to be passed as single variables, so you can pass an entire function as an argument to another function, without having to have that function evaluated till later.

WHY AREN'T YOU USING RUBY, /prog/?

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Don't be blaming that shit on Perl. Perl's linguistic influence is at least meaningful. And thank fuck you can't write 5.times in Perl. Or 5->times for that matter.