From: A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...>
Date: 2002-05-01T00:47:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Slashdot review of Ruby Developers Guide

On Wed, 1 May 2002 james@rubyxml.com wrote:
>
> A quick glance over the reader comments reveals that the /.  crowd has
> progressed past the "why do we need another language?" mindset.
>
> James

Ruby has gotten a LOT of good press of late.

I wish I could find an excuse to use it at work but we're a 100% Java shop
so I'm not sure it'll fly :)

-Chris
(Been learning/using Java of late - boy do I wish Java had Ruby's modules!
You have to do the whole interface/adapter dance to get mixins in Java.)