From: Phill Davies <binary011010@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T11:58:36+09:00
Subject: Re: First mail...

Absolutely, welcome aboard!  Gotta love emails like that.

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 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
>
>