From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-15T09:36:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01350] Re: Say Hi

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01343] Say Hi"
    on 00/02/14, mengx@nielsenmedia.com <mengx@nielsenmedia.com> writes:

|I Studied Ruby's document and coding for about two days and decided
|to start using Ruby even though I have used Python for 5 years, among other
|languages. In my opinion, Ruby is what Python 3000 should be if
|all these $$$$ can be removed :-) (for some reason, I never like
|$$$$ so I chose Python (also due to neat syntax) over Perl).
|Ruby is ultimate dynamic language.

Since use of global variables are not recommended in general, you must
see less $$$$ in Ruby.  I'm planning to provide alternative way for 
a few currently avoidable use of $$$$, e.g. $~, $!, etc.

							matz.