From: forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T23:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language?

On 00:53 Fri 30 May     , Marc Heiler wrote:
> What you should also keep in mind is that if you already
> know Ruby well, learning C can be boring, because 95% of
> what C does, Ruby does too - shorter and nicer for the
> human being.

That goes for any OOP language. Procedural languages like C require more
code to do the more complex task, but generally require less to do
simple things (getchar/scanf vs. messing with an array).