From: Claus Spitzer <DocBoobenstein@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T01:48:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Goody :)

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> Ruby's exception handling.  Even better than java's exception handling.
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Hey, wasn't the assignment to not compare Ruby to other languages? ;)
(just kidding).

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Otherwise, I agree with all that was mentioned before. Let me just add
my two cents:
 - The pickaxe. It is always a nice thing to pick up a relatively
small book on a programming language and find out that it's
practically all you need for many of your reference needs.
 - I find that with Ruby I am rarely forced into using certain
constructs or to transform what I want to do (a.k.a. the code in my
head) to actual code, and when I do then it has always been my problem
(i.e. I didn't know how to do certain things in Ruby, or I wasn't
aware of a certain library). My point is that Ruby acts the way I
think. Or should I say that it's easy for me to think the way Ruby
acts?