From: Mike Shock <mshock@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T13:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Ruby philosophy

Christian Neukirchen writes:
> Do you consider Ruby a good language for teaching people that haven't
> programmed yet?  Just wondering.
>
>   
Sorry for answering the question addressed not to me,
but I'm an aged professional programmer who programmed in many languages 
and for a long time was a lecturer and trainer of OOP.
Compared to other programming languages Ruby has many attracting 
features. It is clear in understanding, pure OO, lightweight and 
elegant, pragmatic and powerful, cross-platform, was deriveded from good 
parent languages, absorbed modern programming ideas, supports different 
programming paradigms.
So Ruby is almost ideally suitable for students and teachers, and I 
strongly recommend for beginner programmers to start with Ruby.

Mike Shock
www.shokhirev.com/mikhail/