Does Ruby takes the paranoia out of programming?

Question

I have been thinking about my shift from Java to Ruby and the thing that strikes me most is Ruby's lucidity ( I know the word lucidity is a qualitative abstract, I guess people who are riding on the same boat will comprehend). Sometimes, I feel I am almost writing psuedo-code.

Does Ruby take the paranoia out of programming and make it a passion rather than a job?

Answer 1

I personally enjoy writing C#. Ruby is nice, but it's not something that makes me go "oh, everything I've done so far has sucked!"

Proximity to natural language syntax isn't a requirement for passion, IMO.

Answer 2

It's more about what you write than what you write in that determines how passionate you feel about your work.

Answer 3

Only if you write a LOT of unit tests.