From: atbusbook@... Date: 2006-08-26T18:20:25+09:00 Subject: Why Ruby does not nead an ide 1: ruby is an efisiont clean languige that is digsined to minamize boilerplate code 2: lets say you have an array of strings and you want to find all strigs that maches a patern and print them space seperated i = %w{foo bar baz qux quux quuux quuuux} puts i.find_all{|x| x =~ /qu+x/}.join(' ') 3: java on the other hand has a lot of boiler plate like setters and getters. i chose java because of the good ide suport. I am a emacs guy and what i like about it is this lets say you want to deleat a block C-space C-S end C-w I am much more efective with ruby and emacs than with eclipce and java becaus the languige is almost sudocode like this echo utilaty or the mach utilaty above puts ARGV.join(' ')