From: "Al Abut - alabut.com" <alabut@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T08:54:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby newbie: 3 week learning project

> Welcome to the Ruby language and community.

Thanks! It's been a very quick and warm welcome. I've heard about the
positive vibe around the Ruby community and it's awesome to witness
firsthand.

> Good luck with your explorations and don't hesitate to shout if we
can
> help illuminate some concept you run into with your studies.  We love

> to help.

That sounds great and I'm going to take you up on that right now,
here's something you can help with: in publicizing my project, I've
gotten a lot of well-intentioned "why should I learn Ruby?" questions
thrown my way and I've been stumbling in trying to explain why it's so
hot. I hadn't thought through why I'd have to explain that actually,
especially not in the some of the more designery circles I travel in. I
just assumed that it would be self-evident to those stymied by either
the hackyness of massaging PHP/ASP/whatever into proper OOP or by the
massively overcomplex Java/C/C++ languages. Can anyone help me explain
(in English!) why I'm so excited about learning Ruby?

> When you have a little more experience and want to practice your new
> language skills, take a stab at solving one of the Ruby Quizzes.

What a great idea, I'll definitely look out for those.

Al Abut
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