From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T23:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: First mail...

2008/8/6 Mayuresh Kathe <kathe.mayuresh@gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just joined the Ruby community by subscribing to this mailing list.
> This is a consequence of just getting exposed to the improved Ruby language.
>
> Though I'd first experimented with it 6 years back for using it as a
> tool for teaching programming to school children, Matz had dissuaded
> me from doing so as the language wasn't matured enough.
> I'm revisiting it as a result of all the hoopla going on about Ruby on Rails.
>
> I come from a Smalltalk background, then was made to work in C++ and
> Java for the past 12 years.
> I find Ruby to be of the same style as Smalltalk, "All Objects, All
> the Time"  :-)
> Stuff like 5.times {puts "Hello World"} is fun ;-)
>
> Expect to master the language and contribute to the community in the long run.

Welcome aboard!  And I hope you do have a lot of fun using Ruby. :-)

Cheers

robert

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