From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T06:53:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby?

On 2 Feb 2010, at 15:19, Jim Maher wrote:
> Is Ruby a good choice as a general usage programming language?  Why (or
> why not)?

Ruby is a fun language to learn and incredibly flexible to work with: pick your favourite coding paradigm and Ruby will support it easily. Indeed of the many languages I've mucked about with in three decades of hacking it's the one I find closest to natural language, and that makes it ideally suited to writing simple programs that solve real-world problems in a maintainable manner.

If you're working in a Unix or Windows environment Ruby also meshes quite nicely with existing libraries and the underlying operating system. There's some work involved but that'd be equally true in most other high-level languages.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
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