From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T03:02:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

I agree full-heartedly.

The responses to my adopt-a-newbie suggestion were totally amazing
(search on ML) and led to the establishment of RubyMentor (
http://rubymentor.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl ).

Amazing community!

On 3/4/07, gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>