From: Al Chou <hotfusionman@...>
Date: 2001-08-12T09:59:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19561] Re: /.ed again

--- Joel Wilsson <siigron@sii.linuxsweden.nu> wrote:
> Interesting (and pleasing) to see that the comments
> this time aren't all "we don't need Ruby, we already
> have Python", but instead "wow, looks cool".

And this despite the fact that that developerWorks article is just about the
poorest representation of Ruby I have seen.  I'm not saying it's _bad_ in an
absolute sense, but reading it reminded me of every other quick language
tutorial I've ever read.  It demonstrates essentially nothing about
Ruby-specific things that set the language apart from others; if I hadn't read
anything about Ruby prior to it, I would have shrugged and thought, "yet
another programming language <yawn>".


Al

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