From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T10:49:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Fun languages (was Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list))

Hi,

In message "Re: Fun languages (was Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list))"
    on Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:46:11 +0900, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:

|Someone (Dave Thomas? Andy Hunt? DHH?) said that Ruby made programming 
|fun *again*. So the obvious question is, "What languages were fun before 
|there was Ruby?"

BASIC was fun for me, when I was in junior high.  The point is that as
I grow up, the problem domain I am in charge become far more complex
than BASIC can handle.  That's why I need Ruby.

							matz.