From: Niko Schwarz Date: 2001-10-20T00:46:05+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22752] impressions Hello out there, it's a nasty traite of mine that, whenever i see something new and opensource and i evaluate it, i speak some sentences bout my impressions. usually im quite hated for that. my 2 cents bout what i know so far bout ruby: hot stuff! ive been writing years of java and some months in perl, but howdi, never before programming was so funny =) its a great combination of smalltalk and perl, and i could kiss Jan Arne for writing JRuby, making it possible to include ruby into java whenever possible =) i dont know if you know that, but whenever i came back from perl to java and had to do something like selecting some portions of an array, or splitting a string into an array, or something like that.. i always get that "raaaaaaaah!"-expression on my face, wanting to shoot java on the moon. java is a great language, but the relatively clumsyness in basic types (int is native, BigInteger is clumsy and immuteable...), i just wish i could use perl. now ive got ruby, and thanks to jan i can include it into java (Which did not work about perl for any os thout troubles). perl flies to trash (took me quite a while to learn it neatly...), thanks for creating such a cool language =) regards, nick -- If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings -- including this one.