From: Alexei Broner Date: 2008-08-12T01:04:52+09:00 Subject: Re: An introduction, in about 50 lines of Ruby. Alright! That's more like it! Well, this thread WAS hijacked, but it seems to have spawned a good discussion and that's more than it was really worth anyhow. @Matz and @Peter Hickman The Python jab was trolling, I'll admit it. I definitely won't say that I know Python, I know enough to think that the indent-block syntax is neat and that being required to pass "self" to instance methods is not. I just wanted to say "hello" to the group. Totally posting my ego and little more. I found my 'hello' program a little more clever than most 'hello world' programs and was testing the community a little by trolling it and seeing what would happen. I will say that I'm impressed that I didn't get any flames and not only that, but my pretty useless thread became a legitimate discussion. I applaud you all. I hope, in time, I will be able to contribute to this community and help build what we all know is great. P.S. I'm all for a beginner's list. I feel I fit in between and I believe that's why it would work. I definitely know enough to help beginners out, but I don't know enough to consider myself a pro, but when I need help I would turn to the pro list for my answers. I believe that there are many 'intermediate' Rubyists, like myself, that would tie the two lists together and bring a separation-of-concerns to this growing community. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.