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Questions involving the design and structure of programming languages.

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Why did Ruby creator chose to use the concept of Symbols?

tl;dr: Would there be a language-agnostic definition of Symbols and a reason to have them in other languages? So, why did the Ruby creator use the concept of symbols in the language? I ask this fro …