From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T13:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: First mail...

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:54:53PM +0900, 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 lang=
uage.
> >
> > 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 lo=
ng run.
>=20
> Welcome aboard!  And I hope you do have a lot of fun using Ruby. :-)

Ditto!

Okay, I'll say more:

Ruby is a heck of a lot of fun.  I think so, anyway.

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Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
H. L. Mencken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what
they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

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