Humane Interface Vs Minimal Interface

I am very new to Ruby(In fact I am trying to understand what it is), and today I stumbled upon an article by ' Martin Fowler ' which is an eye opener for me and I beleive, this could be a good start for me to start visualizing why there is so much hype about Ruby !! I have suddenly started seeing coding in Java/J2EE as x86 programming !!