In a recent post, I compared the expressiveness of the Ruby style of writing code to the current C# style of writing code. I then went on and demonstrated one approach to achieving something close to Ruby’s expressiveness using Extension Methods in C# 3.0. The discussion focused on how well each code sample expresses the intent of the author. Let’s look at the comparison: Ruby: 20.minutes.ago C#: DateTime.Now.Subtract(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(20)); C# 3.0 using Extension Methods: 20.Minutes().Ago(); It seems obvious to me that the C# 3.0 example is more expressive than the classic C# approach, but not everyone agrees. Several people...