Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. For many people, that language is Ruby. It’s often credited with making programming “click”; imprintees speak of it with a certain indebtedness and affection. What I saw wasn’t a bejeweled tool but a poor little thing that hadn’t quite gotten the news that the world of programming had moved on. Programming languages are generally divided into two camps: statically typed and dynamically typed.