Would it be ok if I decide to write all my Ruby as if it were Haskell?

Given that Ruby has good list operation capabilities in-built - reduce, map, select, collect etc. It has Procs, Blocks and Lambdas, and has nice iteration support (the each family), would it be a bad design decision if I attempt to write all my Ruby stuff in the most pure-functional way possible? Escpecially for code that has little or no I/O (thus less obvious side-effects)? I've been learning Haskell (called the 'real' Hacker's language), and am in love with it's way of doing things - I love Ruby, but think it can be even more fun when more Haskell spirit flows into it (well, didn't Ruby borrow / learn lots from it in the first place?) Constructive guidance is welcome...

Apr 2, 2025 - 21:13

Given that Ruby has good list operation capabilities in-built - reduce, map, select, collect etc. It has Procs, Blocks and Lambdas, and has nice iteration support (the each family), would it be a bad design decision if I attempt to write all my Ruby stuff in the most pure-functional way possible? Escpecially for code that has little or no I/O (thus less obvious side-effects)?

I've been learning Haskell (called the 'real' Hacker's language), and am in love with it's way of doing things - I love Ruby, but think it can be even more fun when more Haskell spirit flows into it (well, didn't Ruby borrow / learn lots from it in the first place?)

Constructive guidance is welcome...