From: "Albert L. Wagner" Date: 2001-12-20T23:48:15+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29121] Re: But is it Fun? Mark Hahn wrote: > > > As coding assembler is fun > > I can see that you never had to code anything big in assembler. Speaking as > one who was forced to do this many times, I can safely say it was never fun. Probably because you were forced. Assembler was my first language and I enjoyed the hell out of it. But that was then and this is now. I wouldn't do it now :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Neumann [mailto:neumann@s-direktnet.de] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 3:00 PM > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: [ruby-talk:29030] Re: But is it Fun? > > Ryo Furue wrote: > > bobh@hslda.org (Robert) wrote in message > news:<4a249347.0112181814.4657f513@posting.google.com>... > > > edwardhatfield1@aol.com (Edward Hatfield) wrote in message > news:<53afde8.0112180614.6ca84fff@posting.google.com>... > > > > I've been watching Ruby with great interest over > > > > the last year, but I have to ask... > > > > > > > > Is it Fun? Does it bring fun back into programming? > > > > > > > > Or is it just another language, that has some cool > > > > features. > > > > > > Like everything it is subjective. Try and see... > > > > Correct. But, I'd like to add that there are lots of people (me > > included) who have found Ruby is fun! It does bring fun back to me. > > YMMV, though. > > As I am young and not contamined with COBOL, FORTRAN and all the other > "nice" languages, programming was fun from the beginning. > > As coding assembler is fun, Ruby is fun, too. But beeing productive is > more fun, and that's why Ruby is more fun than coding assembler. > > Regards, > > Michael > > -- > Michael Neumann > merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH > http://www.merlin-zwo.de -- "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippman