From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-06-13T10:29:32+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03350] RE:  Selling Rubies by the Carat

> |              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