From: Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T22:53:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23446] Re: Ruby and Python: a fuzzy question

At Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:08:55 +0900,
Emiliano wrote:

[...]

> Hah! I bet the word 'conservatism' got your attention. I don't mean it
> in the sense of stagnated, but in the sense that that which you are
> familiar with will seem natural to you. This part of the debate looks
> a lot like those long-winded debates about user-friendlyness, which I
> think is an appropriate term for programming languages 'touch and feel'
> too. [...]

As someone already said, I tend to think that Ruby is beautiful. 

so IMVHO, 'look and feel' isn't to bad for Ruby ;)

> [...]So whatever you're introduced to first will probably have a very
> large influence on what you'll find intuitive later. [...]

I agree with this. And I just now curious what was the first language
you guys learned?

My self, I learned BASIC when I was a kid.  And the first language
that I learned at College was Ada. ;)

regards,
--
        yashi