From: Tim Hammerquist <tim@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T05:31:45+09:00
Subject: Re: In your opinion....

Daniel Lewis <danieljohnlewis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Too lazy to do your own research? It happens ;-). For
> > a starter, check out
> > http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RealWorldRuby
> 
> Thats quite a good little page... thanks. However, I am asking
> you lot, in your experience what is Ruby good for.

Relieving depression that not all future OO languages need be
unimaginative iterations of the same C++/Java trainwreck?

Inspiring new, elegant, readable code, without being tied down
by Python's fascist syntax control, or Perl's line noise?

Curing boredom on a lazy weekend?

If you're looking to trap anyone into saying something like
"Ruby is great for RoR stuff, but I don't really use it anywhere
else", you're not going to get it from me.  Ruby was a breath of
fresh air from the second I found I could have intuitive,
functional, and readable variable names *AND* intuitive regular
expression syntax at the same time.  As I got the hang of
iterators, it just got better.

(I still love Perl, and at the moment, I'm still more fluent in
Perl than in Ruby, but I never stop practising.)

If you're just want us to justify your learning Ruby,
stop stalling already and jump in!

Tim Hammerquist