From: Nick Brown <nick@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T03:07:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

Ruby is a delight to program in. After spending the (short) time it 
takes to grok Ruby, every other language you use will feel tedious and 
limiting by comparison. You will feel like other languages are wasting 
you, the programmer's, time.

Ruby is also the rising star of the programming world. The main thing 
that was holding it back--execution speed--is going to be addressed 
quite well with the upcoming Ruby 2.0 release. The new version is as 
fast than the closest competing language, Python.

I think everyone should know a high-level "scripting" language and a 
lower-level compiled language. Ruby and Java are a good combo, 
especially since you can easily use Ruby together with Java thanks to 
JRuby.
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