From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T03:03:24+09:00
Subject: Ruby Goody :)

Hi,

 I often saw discussions about "what is better" -- and not only
 concerning Ruby. Most of this discussion were made (?correct word? or
 is it "discussions were lead"? or..? Head.dictionary.use == empty ;) 
 by pointing to "the other" saying "the bad thing with XYZ is...".

 I would be very interested in what other Rubyists do like most with
 Ruby -- without any comparison with other languages.

 What is "your most wanted feature of Ruby already implemented" ?

 For the first I will start here with three things:

 1) The Ruby mailing list is a friendly place on earth.
	(Support matters!)  

	and 

 2) You does not need to know everything about Ruby to handle it.
	This should be understood in two ways:

	First interpretation:
	Ruby is able to be complex enough and to handle complex algorithms
	and to remain interesting. And it is simple enough to be
	recognized as an interesting "object" to learn from the start on.

	Second interpretation:
	If you know a certain way "to speak to your Ruby" you can
	interpolate your knowledge to and into other programming
	situations and Ruby phrases and most of the time it works out of
	the box or with only a little change.

    and

 3) Most of the time one knows what to ask / to search for if someting
    needs to be clearified.
	You dont need to learn a certain "ruby talk" to get
    understood. For example: A string is a string is a string.  Ruby
    is not that special in its "talk about" that you dont need to
    learn a special language to talk about the language you want to
    talk about. That makes searching for informations -- for example
    -- in the documentation much more easier and (important not only
    for beginners!) successful -- and this in turn keeps one motivated.

	Enough said ;)

	What do you think ?


 PS: This is not intended to be the start of a flame war -- that's why
 I dont said anything like "Ruby is better than XYZ, becaus of alpha
 beta gamma..." 

 Kind regards,
 Meino