From: Jan <jan@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T19:32:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [OFF] How to introduce Ruby to more people.

bin liu wrote:
> Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
> Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
> I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and use it .
> But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even  our country .
> I'm eager for your advices.
> 
> 

Don't try to describe it. No description really captures the beauty and 
the elegance of the language. Try to show it.
I got interested in ruby during fosdem 2004, where the presenter (don't 
remember the name) made a distributed application with yaml persistence 
in an hour. (while explaining every step). When I compared both the 
beauty of the code and the time needed to my Java background.. Well, it 
was hard not to get interested in ruby :-)