From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T14:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: First mail...

Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> 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.

On that note, I've found it rather enlightening to read through Alan 
Kay's "Early History of SmallTalk" 
(http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_Abstract.html) 
and then compare that to _why's "The Little Coder's Predicament" 
(http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theLittleCodersPredicament.html). 
There's much to learn and do in the Ruby world!

-Josh
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