From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T23:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Fun languages (was Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list))


On 3-Jan-07, at 8:49 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

Smalltalk has always been fun for me (first environment I actually  
played with extensively); but in the last couple of years, Io has  
been a little more fun.

--
Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca