From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-10-21T05:24:17+09:00
Subject: Re: A concise description of Ruby?

In article <10ndbu6tgvg2ca7@corp.supernews.com>,
Paul Sanchez  <paulNO@SPAM.argelfraster.org> wrote:
>
>You're looking for a ruby "elevator speech"!
>
>Ruby is an elegant language in which it's easy and natural to express 
>solutions.  It's simple enough that a beginner can start using it 
>immediately, yet powerful enough to deal with sophisticated needs.  It's 
>so fun that the Puritans would have banned it had they known about it.

The Puritans often get a bad wrap, but that would lead to another long 
thread...

Actually, if you want to get people to rally behind Ruby you should change 
your sentence to: 
It's so fun and powerful that John Ashcroft is planning to ban it.

Then you'd get lots of folks interested and 'Save Ruby' websites would 
spring up all over the web ;-)

Phil