From: Paul Stickney <pstickne@...>
Date: 2008-01-16T03:11:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie

If I had a penny for every time I saw some awful code influenced by
learning awful languages (and yes, this includes my code too)... I
stand by by answer. Do not learn poorly-designed languages unless
there is a direct gain from it (eg: to put food on the table). It's
easier to learn than to unlearn.

Thank you for not kicking the straw-man. That was uncalled for on my part.

As far as not answering the original question, I beg to differ:

> Can I be a good web
> programmer or develop my own web application by only learning Ruby? Or
> do i need to start with JAVA and then Ruby?

(I feel that I also covered most of the implicit non-questions
culminating with: "...so that I can be enlightened".)