I was just browsing some Ruby and Rails resources and came across this gem of a site.

Without a hint of sarcasm it was fascinating reading .... up till about half way down the page before it completely lost me in riddle ... Ruby is an amazing language. One that, syntactically wise, is orders of magnitudes more complex than Java. But seriously, do we really need that level of complexity to write business apps?!?! Usually the most important parts of most software projects revolve around good design, use of frameworks, good test coverage, etc.... not necessarily how complex or succinct you can code Ruby

Without getting into the complexity of Ruby I do find that, at the very simplest level, I constantly have to keep reminding myself of what "types" each variable within my scope is ... i can literally feel my brain doing gymnastics during the day it usually goes:

"variable a is a String, variable b is an integer, 
variable C is of that Class, variable d is a Hash ... 
um, what was variable a again?!?!"

yeh... obviously i am still in Java mode. Gimme a break. I've been doing it pretty full for the last 2 years ... it sure is very different to be programming in a language that doesn't have any form of type safety

Get over it already!

Yeh, i should. Anyway, if anything it shows that I have a heck of a long way to go when it comes to Ruby. I don't think one can ever get bored coding in this language ... it certainly keeps you on your toes all the time ...