From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T02:43:11+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEA: Ruby "offline" CD / DVD

On 3/14/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>
> 2. What's disruptive about Ruby? It seems to me perfectly mainstream --
> imperative, object oriented, dynamic, reasonable block-structured
> syntax, agile, pragmatic, human-centric, etc. Disruptive would be
> Scheme, FORTH, Haskell or Erlang.

I've noticed that Ruby is a very "gateway drug" sort of language :) It
has enough (and well-integrated enough) features from mind-expanding
languages that it encourages its users to go out and try them.

m.