From: Harpo Date: 2006-01-04T04:47:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Rubyhelp wanted /offered Ross Bamford wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, wrote: > >> I'm happy to say I don't know any true Ruby elitists. > > In my humble, and possibly controversial opinion, I'd suggest it could > be about the fact that the Ruby community seems to have a greater > density of hackers than many others, so it's more common for Rubyists > to know (and even love) several languages than with, say, Perl or > Python, where a greater proportion of the community is probably mostly > monolingual. Your opinion is controversial and it is one of its quality. I don't feel to belong to a Ruby community, Ruby is just the language I love the best for now, I'm also a Ruby newbie and I don't know much many other languages. Maybe hackers may like Ruby because it let you write simple things easily and less simple things too, in some other languages, the complexness (??) is due to the language constructs and other limitations, not to the problem to solve. I don't know whether there is a 'true' definition of what is a hacker or not, I think he is someone who, when he, by chance, have some problem to solve, spend a a week apparently doing nothing, then writes 100 lines in an hour instead of writing in a week thousands lines of unreadable code. Maybe hacking is spending time looking at problems with an unusual sight, not searching for the usual pattern to apply. At a language level, Ruby seems to provide very good stuff. -- I do apologize for my bad English.