Contrast Ruby for common problems and contrast it with perl and php
To show non-programmers that ruby can be very nice, use something that
is a beautiful domain-specific language. I.e. it should be
understandable for non-programmers immediately
"order 2 pizza"
"shut down company"
"fire all programmers"
well, you get the idea....

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