From: Andrew Cowan <icculus@...>
Date: 2001-10-20T01:45:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22762] Re: impressions

Agreed. I saw a mention of the language at Slashdot some time ago and 
didn't think much about it until I ran into the Pragmatic programmer's 
guide at BnN. Coming from about 10 years of Perl programming and some 
textbootk knowledge of Java and C++ programming I am finding Ruby easy to 
learn and alot more fun to implement. I write software for a living and am 
now going through my library and rewriting much of it in Ruby, for the fun 
of it mainly, but also to help me get accustomed to the syntactical changes 
and tons of features which make the language extremely useful. 

I second your nod of Thanks!


Niko Schwarz wrote:

> 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


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