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Dan Fockler

Ruby was the first language I learned that felt really fun. It didn't feel like I was fighting a rigid system to get things done, and I wasn't writing unnecessary glue code or helper methods everywhere.

In school I had originally learned Java and then did about 5 years of PHP/JS development work. Finally I got a job doing Ruby after being a fan of the language since college. Ruby just works with my brain instead of getting in the way of it.