From: Vincent Foley <vinfoley@...>
Date: 2002-11-04T05:58:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

When I started learning Ruby, some things didn't feel natural (strings
as integer arrays for example), but I eventually learned to cope with
these and also, not think too much of the features I would like to have
(conses, tail-recursion optimization, etc.)  Language designers do their
best to write a language that the actual community continues to like.
Larry Wall listens to the Perl people and if their suggestions make
sense, he probably adds them.  Same goes for Guido Van Rossum and
Python.  And matz listens to the Ruby community (he's pretty active in
this ML).

Just give it time, eventually the large number of nice features in Ruby
will make it easier for you to accept the little annoyances.

Oh, welcome in the Ruby world!

Vince

-- 

Vincent Foley-Bourgon
Email: vinfoley@iquebec.com
Homepage: http://darkhost.mine.nu:81