From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-15T18:13:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Why teach Ruby in the classroom?

2010/3/15 Space Ship Traveller <space.ship.traveller@gmail.com>:
> Thats odd - the link has been stripped out.
>
> Why teach Ruby in schools? - Orion Transfer Ltd
> http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/education/learn-ruby/why/index

I think the first item in the list is a very important one!  I am
missing these items in your list:

- Ruby is a fully object oriented language - there are no hybrid
constructs like Java's plain old datatypes, instead everything is an
object.

- Ruby can be used consistently with a variety of programming
paradigms: procedural, object oriented class based, object oriented
prototype based, functional etc.  So you need only one language to
cover several areas and you can even implement the same task in
different paradigms in the same program to make comparison of
paradigms simple.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm

Kind regards

robert

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