From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T03:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: More "Ruby for Java developers"

On 12/23/05, Malte Milatz <malte__@gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> Tom Copeland:
> > There's a new article on IBM developerWorks called "Ruby off the Rails":
> >
> > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ruby/
>
> Huh, it is really written from a very Javanese perspective:
>
> | First, Ruby has no brackets or semicolons, and it makes types completely
> | optional.
>
> But apart from that, of course, it's always nice to see people understanding
> where Ruby can help them better than other langauges.

Ruby has lots of brackets and braces.  And you can use semi-colons. 
And it is a strongly-typed language.

Grr.