From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-08-24T07:49:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why, oh why, _why?

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:34 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> > Among the terrible consequences of this, one of the lesser but still
> > notable is that someone with the power needs to edit ruby-lang.org to
> > remove the link to tryruby.hobix.com
>
> That is sad, and probably the first time I've been truly burnt by an online
> service...
>
> That is, while I imagine someone may have his "freaky freaky sandbox"
> somewhere, I'll no longer be able to point people to that amazing
> introduction. It was something like fifteen or twenty minutes, even for
> non-
> programmers, and served as an amazing introduction to Ruby and programming
> in
> general.
>
> Perhaps I'm being selfish, but I think that's one thing I'll miss the most.


I entirely agree.  I must've pointed at least a dozen people who were
interested in trying to learn to program but had no idea how to start at
tryruby, and many of them "got it" from that more than any other tutorial.
While it wouldn't be too difficult to duplicate the sandboxed VM-on-the-web,
it'd be much harder to replicate the easy and informative tutorial that went
along with it.

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Tony Arcieri
Medioh/Nagravision

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