From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-11-04T04:17:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Wagner" <alwagner@tcac.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby


> It is this consistency in pure languages that cause problems for people
coming
> from such languages to Ruby.  The corrolary is people coming from simple
> procedural languages (C) and hybrid languages (C++) who have trouble
grasping
> the almost pureness of Ruby.  Ruby sits midway between canonical pure OOP
> (Smalltalk) and procedural/hybrid languages.  Whether you enter Ruby from
the
> left or right you are bound to be suprised.

This is a great analysis, especially the last paragraph.
Thank you for this.

Hal