Ruby makes all of this possible because the Ruby runtime system is completely introspectable and modifiable. This ability is lacking in almost every other programming language, save Smalltalk. This fact led Stuart to say one of my favorite quotes from the conference: “The notion that you’d never want production systems to be introspectable has to be one of the worst premature optimizations of all time!”
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