From: Mark Woodward <see@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T18:53:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyhelp wanted /offered

Harpo wrote:
> Ross Bamford wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:39:13 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> 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.

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Mark