From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2006-04-01T23:08:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Important features of Ruby


A.Serebrenik@tue.nl wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm pretty new to Ruby and I've discovered that it has a number of nice
> ideas such as blocks and mixins. I wonder, however, what features of
> Ruby would the experts consider as being the most important ones? Why
> does Ruby gain more and more attention nowadays? Is it due to its
> ability to combine OO, functional and scripting ideas? Or due to rapid
> development of database-backed web applications with Ruby on Rails?
>

http://reddit.com/search?q=ruby

somewhere in there are articles by Bruce Eckel,Bruce Tate, Ian Bicking,
Martin Fowle, Sam Ruby etc about ruby vs java vs python vs lisp vs
whatever