From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-06-13T14:16:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Why should I learn ruby?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:18:32PM +0900, Josh Cheek wrote:
> 
> For someone with no programming experience, I would recommend learning
> JavaScript. It doesn't have much to offer, except it is ubiquitous and will
> allow you to quickly start playing with things that you can see tangible
> results. For Ruby or Python, it will take quite a bit longer before you
> have anything beyond mind castles.

I disagree.  The languages I have had the best luck picking up quickly
were those that were best suited to creating command line utilities that
automate common tasks.  With some basic understanding of array handling,
regular expressions, command line argument parsing, and file reading and
writing, whole worlds of such automation possibilities open up.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]