From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T13:26:53+09:00
Subject: Re: About last night ...

From: "Benjamin Reed" <rangerrick@gmail.com>

> finally subscribed to this list a few days ago

Welcome !

> I'm genuinely liking what I'm seeing digging into the language and
> into Rails.  It's the happy middle ground between the perl and Java
> (which I primarly > work in right now).  It's got *real* objects but
> still has the richness of perl (and not so much of the craziness of
> it that can bite you in the foot.)

Your post reminded me vividly how I felt discovering Ruby in
1999-2000, while undertaking Perl and Java projects at work.

:)

I must say, I've never missed Type Globs or public static void
main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } since.

<grin>


Regards,

Bill