Noel Rappin Writes Here

Ruby takes a large part of its inspiration from two older languages: Perl for general syntax and design philosophy Smalltalk for Object-Oriented structure I’ve been in kind of a writers block, for all kinds of reasons, personal and professional. I started to think about an article that I could write that would get my fingers typing, and drifted into what I could do for another “Better Know A Ruby Thing”, started thinking about String literals, wondered how I would answer the question of why Ruby has so many ways to write String literals.