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For me the big issue with Ruby—which admittedly has many fine features I would like to see in other languages—is the lack of a general standard for its operations. There are so many ways to get the same basic logic loop done, it feels like a recipe for either unfollowable code or chaos in programming teams.
So it is a real perl replacement.
This also applies to C.
Allow me to clarify.
C has for, while, and do-while. That's it.
Ruby has for, while, do-while, until, rescue, inlined conditionals, optionals, and iterators, for what amounts to the same task; not to mention exceptions (something the C standard has repeated swerved away from, wisely) and lambdas.
I'm not saying that there isn't a time for Ruby, but if you think C falls into the same category then we're very much in disagreement.
C has for, while, do-while, goto and recursion.
How exactly are rescue, inlined conditionals and optionals used for creating loops? Also Ruby's for and while do different things, unlike for and while in C.