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Ruby was conceived by a man who worked a lot in Perl and Unix. This is very much transparent from the language itself. If you are a Unix professional you will know at least half of of these names/symbols by heart:` `, $?, STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ${}, ARGV, $$ ... # shell-isms%Q, %q, %x, -e, -F, -wnlp, / /, $VAR, @VAR...

GNOME accomplishes what seems to be impossible: it’s the most limited and bloated desktop environment for Linux. But that’s not accidental. It’s the result of the arrogance and amateurism of its main developers, making the design decisions of GNOME a masterpiece of chaos. To better understand what’s happening, let’s...