From: Jim Cochrane <allergic-to-spam@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T02:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Ruby philosophy

On 2006-12-08, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>> Do you consider Ruby a good language for teaching people that haven't
>> programmed yet?  Just wondering.
>>=20
>
> I personally consider teaching programming in any language without a
> REPL as Cruel and Unusual (tm) torture. Compiler-wrestling is a skill of

What is a REPL?