From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2001-02-09T00:53:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10584] Re: Larry Wall INterview

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, greg strockbine wrote:

> Larry Wall's interview is how I found out 
> about Ruby.  Within a week I had Ruby 
> installed at home and work,  bought the book,
> started rewriting my Perl scripts into Ruby

Wow. Sounds exactly like myself.

> and generally made myself obnoxious at work

I try not to be too obnoxious about Ruby at work. :)

> by telling everyone within ear shot how truly
> great Ruby is.   I'm in love!

Yes, I can't believe how powerful Ruby is while at the same time really
lowering the bar for programmability and readability. I have written some
extensive perl scripts at work and my boss thinks perl is a great
language, but he cringes at the cryptic syntax.

When I mentioned that I was converting all my Perl scripts to Ruby, he had
no problem with it. Didn't even question the idea. 
I was really surprised at the lack of resistance.


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