From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T06:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

Hi,

--- Sam Sungshik Kong <ssk@chol.nospam.net> wrote:
> This post is kinda long and a personal opinion which
> is not meant for
> flaming. I think that sharing my experience and
> opinion may be helpful to
> whoever starts to learn Ruby (especially coming from
> Python).
> 
> 
> 
> Sam

[snip]

What a beautiful post. ;-)

I think this quote has some truth, after all:

"It's so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be
simple." � Gururaj Ananda Yogi

I find Ruby very interesting, not because it's the
simplest language on earth, but because it struggles
to make the life of the programmer simpler. On the
other hand, the tool makers go crazy because they
can't wrap Ruby, due to it being so dynamic. At the
end of the day, we have all this power that can't be
shared with the newbies, because they can't have their
IDEs as they are used to with the other languages...
and even the language needs some care before one can
truly like it.

I have a couple of articles on Ruby at my site:
http://geocities.com/canalruby/index_en.htm

They aren't long, and they have been translated from
Portuguese to English. I still gotta translate some
text of my examples, though.

Thanks,
Joao


		
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