[#3109] Is divmod dangerous? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2000/06/06

[#3149] Retrieving the hostname and port in net/http — Roland Jesse <jesse@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2000/06/07

[#3222] Ruby coding standard? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

16 messages 2000/06/09

[#3277] Re: BUG or something? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> |I am new to Ruby and this brings up a question I have had

17 messages 2000/06/12
[#3281] Re: BUG or something? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/06/12

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

[#3296] RE: about documentation — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> I want to contribute to the ruby project in my spare time.

15 messages 2000/06/12

[#3407] Waffling between Python and Ruby — "Warren Postma" <embed@...>

I was looking at the Ruby editor/IDE for windows and was disappointed with

19 messages 2000/06/14

[#3410] Exercice: Translate into Ruby :-) — Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>

Hi All,

17 messages 2000/06/14

[#3415] Re: Waffling between Python and Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

>Static typing..., hmm,...

11 messages 2000/06/14

[#3453] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby) — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

32 messages 2000/06/16

[#3516] Deep copy? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Given that I cannot overload =, how should I go about ensuring a deep

20 messages 2000/06/19

[#3694] Why it's quiet — hal9000@...

We are all busy learning the new language

26 messages 2000/06/29
[#3703] Re: Why it's quiet — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/06/30

Hi,

[#3705] Re: Why it's quiet — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/06/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:03350] RE: Selling Rubies by the Carat

From: Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-06-13 08:29:32 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3350
> |              Why should people learn Ruby?                   |
> it? What one word completes the sentence "Ruby is a ________
> [programming] language"? This doesn't have to be an existing term:

You want code fast, test your ideas, pay little attention to unnecessary
details, be able to weld existing technologies, and you end up using
scripting languages.
You want create bigger, clear, maintainable programs and you count Perl and
TCL out.
You want be flexible with your language and habits, want to learn one
language for small and big tasks and you couldn't use Python.
It seemed there's no one language to satisfy most needs.
But there is. Ruby is balanced mixture of functionality and imperativeness,
real OO programming and tricks for quick hacks..um..solutions, tested and
tried technologies.

To me, Ruby is a ruddy language! (In a sense it has a healthy reddish
color.)

	- Aleksi

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