From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-03T23:23:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11936] Re: Negative Reviews for Ruby and ProgrammingRuby

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11928] Re: Negative Reviews for Ruby and ProgrammingRuby"
    on 01/03/03, Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> writes:

|Maybe.  I've not yet fallen in love with any language, so I can't say.
|I found Perl fantastically useful, but a PITA in many ways.  Tcl is
|beautifully clean, but lacks first-class structures: another PITA.
|Ruby is attractive because it combines Perl's usefulness with clean
|and powerful foundations.  Is this love?

Perhaps.  You'll see it soon.

							matz.