Ruby (which is one of my favorite languages because it is so expressive) can very easily be monkey patched into an indecipherable nightmare, while I’ve seen PHP (a language that encourages badly organized code to the point that I’ve often said it must stand for Page Hacked to Pasta) that was so clear and well-organized it would make you weep tears of joy.
The theory is not as important as the way you put it into practice.
this is part of an article, I didn't write it, but it is SO great that I took the freedom to reproduce it here, the full article is probably at techrepublic.com
