From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T11:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

On Mar 3, 1:29 am, Dave Thomas <d...@pragprog.com> wrote:
> On any other language list, if I announced a book on a different  
> language, I'd get flamed until crisp.
>
> Here, all you folks say is "cool".
>
> It's a nice place to call home.
>
> Dave

I would agree. Out of the various languages I've worked with (or at
least dabbled in) such as Java, C, C++, C#, VB, Python, Smalltalk, and
Ruby, that the Ruby community is the best. In terms of being
courteous, friendly, helpful, and active. There are newsgroups or
mailing lists for other languages that might try to help but are just
so inactive due to a small user base. Then there is the opposite. A
language that's so big that one person's post is ignored or at best it
receives a curt reply such as "Google in your friend." The Ruby
community as a whole has a sense of humor, likes to explore other
languages, and realizes there's more than one tool to do the job.

For a newbie looking to pick a programming language to start out with,
if they are interested in the community as a resource then browse the
various newsgroups and mailing lists. See what the replies are and how
welcome newbies are. Ruby would be #1 in my book.