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I can only recommend the "Simple Made Easy" talk by Rich Hickey.

I suppose it can be said that Scheme is very simple but hard for many, while Ruby is very complex but easy for many.

I think Rails fits what Hickey says about easy complexity very well. Ruby not at all - I find it very much not “braided together” compared to other programming languages. It’s still object oriented, and Hickey’s talk is largely directed at showing how bare maps and immutability and functional style and so forth in Clojure are better than what he calls the “petty parochialisms” of class hierarchies. But among OO non Clojure languages I’d argue Ruby is among the closest to th ideals he espouses in that talk.

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