From: Patrick Li <patrickli_2001@...>
Date: 2008-08-17T15:06:37+09:00
Subject: Re: I wish to learn Ruby ,can anyone teach me???

For your first programming language, I wouldn't suggest learning Ruby. 
From my experience, both learning and teaching, Java is a really 
suitable beginner language. It's adequately powerful, and extremely 
simple, and it comes with enough libraries for you to do a lot of work 
in.

Ruby is still new. And even though the language is quite elegant and 
extremely powerful, there's lots of quirks that can be abused. 
Experienced programmers naturally know what features of the language to 
use sparingly and carefully. Beginners will have more difficulty.

To sum up: I haven't encountered much that I can do with Ruby that I 
wouldn't be able to do in Java. Ruby helps speed things up 
tremendously... but that's given that you already know what you're 
doing.
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