From: Giacecco <giacecco@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T00:18:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as First Language

Hi Woodyee, how important is this information according to your
profession?

If you're doing this for yourself, Ruby will be a great language to
learn and use.

But if you are doing this to revise your position in the job market,
none of the languages you listed will give you much advantage: it's
Java and/or C# to be obligatory these days in any curriculum.

I am certain that Ruby will grow a lot in the next years and things
will change, but if you have to decide today, and it is for your job,
Ruby is still too weak.

Gianfranco