Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

This post originally appeared on Code-love. In an online chat session between Yukihiro Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka in early 1993, a discussion ensued about the name of a programming language that ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...